SABC News Online
Wednesday, December 13, 2006
The Association for Rural Advancement, along with eight provincially based NGOs, have held a workshop for the past two days looking at the rights of people living on farms. The main focus was concern over existing legislation, which was to have redressed injustices of the past.
These farm dwellers say land rights and human rights abuses remains rife in commercial farming activities. Issues such as poor working conditions, the lack of information and the lack of education of farm dwellers where raised.
The delegates have called for the scrapping of two pieces of legislation, the Extension of Security of Tenure and the Land Tenure Act. They feel the existing legislation has failed farm dwellers and there is a need for an alternative framework.
An organisation representing landless people in Brazil also attended the conference.