70 Migrant Farm Workers Fled Abuse in South Africa
Jan 22, 2016 · The migrant farm workers stranded in Lephalale are only a few of the thousands of farm workers across the country who are paid sub-minimum wages, forced to toil in harsh conditions that are illegal under South African labor law and often being physically abused.
Given the myriad policy, practice and political contexts of low skilled farm migrant labour in South Africa, this WP is animated by the following research questions: To what extent are South Africas labour and immigration policy frameworks aligned with the
Migrant Workers in Africa: In Their Own Voices - Solidarity Center
Jan 25, 2017 · Migrant farm workers like Muwani are exposed to dangerous workplace conditions and without a union, cannot exercise their rights. “We use a chemical to spray grass but you don’t have rubber boots or a respirator but you are working with poison,” says Muwani.
Migrant Farm Workers: Courage in the Face of Inhumanity
Jan 27, 2017 · Some 34 million Africans are migrants—the majority are workers moving across borders in search of jobs that can support their families. As around the world, migrant workers in Africa are cheated of wages wages (which is a modern form of forced labor) and coerced to work in dangerous and unhealthy working conditions.
Responding to the health needs of migrant farm workers in South Africa …
Reflecting global trends, migrant farm workers in South Africa experience challenges in accessing healthcare. On the commercial farms in Musina, a sub-district bordering Zimbabwe, Medécins sans Frontières and the International Organization for Migration both implemented migration-aware community-bas …
S. Africa Urged to Stop Abuse of Migrant Farm Workers
Jan 20, 2016 · Solidarity Center and other migrant labor organizations are calling on the South African government to urgently intervene and stop severe labor rights abuses faced by …
Africa •Increased precarity of farm workers as a result of broader structural transformation in the sector, and limited mobilisation of farm workers and migrant workers in South Africa •Relationship between the spatiality of commercial farms and the labour outcomes of farm workers, in particular if
Mnqobi Ngubane: Immigrant farm workers on land reform …
Jun 12, 2019 · The current land reform process in South Africa has deepened farm worker marginalisation in many ways, including their exclusion in land allocation, and sometimes real loss of jobs to make way for elite land beneficiaries.
Out of roughly 300 000 farm workers, only 5% are unionised, and these tend to be permanent, full-time workers with South African citizenship. The lack of seasonal and migrant workers among the ranks of the unionised suggests that labour casualisation is a …
Enriching Rural Communities Through Migration for Sustainable ...
The agriculture sector in South Africa attracts migrant workers from across the region. When their skills are effectively channelled, and their labour rights protected, migrant workers have the potential to help improve agricultural value chains and accelerate sustainable development outcomes for themselves, their families and communities.
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