Commercial farm workers in South Africa endured centuries of exploitation and abuse until
the 1990s, when progressive legislation was promulgated that confers rights to workers …

Here, we discuss tensions inherent in multistakeholder approaches addressing conflicts
over natural resources as well as the involvement of stakeholders in research. Our …

What does it mean to be 'permanent'in an increasingly flexible world of work? On the
Zimbabwean-South African border, white farmers guard against risk by investing in portfolios …

The police killing of scores of striking mineworkers at the Marikana Mines in 2012 triggered,
as Beresford puts it,'a period of national introspection'in South Africa. 1 This gave new …

South Africa's settler agriculture, variously vilified or romanticised through its boer, colonial
and apartheid histories, has seen important changes since apartheid began to crumble in …

In 2012/2013, widespread rural unrest—commonly referred to as the “farm worker strike”—
broke out in the Western Cape, South Africa. This exposed not only poor salaries and …

More than most forms of employment in Southern Africa, farm work seems to evoke the past.
Recent events, however, have foregrounded global integration and cost-cutting …

Ethical trade in exports from developing countries has come to the fore during the 1990s.
South Africa is a major off-season deciduous fruit exporter to Europe, and most fruit …

How do labour regimes change as large‐scale agriculture depends increasingly on
temporary labour? The S outh A frican side of the L impopo River, which marks its border …

South African agriculture is characterized by growing labour unrest, evinced in recent years
by high-profile strikes, but little is known about the sources and forms of day-to-day struggle …