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🌾Online Event- Farm Workers in South Africa and the Struggle for Justice 🌾

with Carmen Louw and Stephmarie Pekeur, hosted in collaboration between Women on Farms Project and the Farmers Without Borders

🗓️ *Tuesday, 14.04.2026 at 6pm (CEST/SAST)*

💻 *Online – Please register here:* https://uni-kassel.zoom-x.de/meeting/register/9vBMIT2RRoC3fywYyBAr3g

South Africa’s agricultural sector is deeply integrated into global markets, supplying supermarkets worldwide with products such as table grapes and wine. Yet many (women) farm workers and farm dwellers behind these exports face precarious working and living conditions. On many farms, ownership and power remain concentrated among white farm owners, and everyday relations are still characterised by reflect inequalities rooted in apartheid.

This online event explores the realities of life and work on South African farms. We will discuss power dynamics in the agricultural sector, the role of agribusiness, housing and living conditions, gendered experiences of farm labour, and how women workers navigate growing precarity. The conversation also highlights how farm workers and dwellers organize, resist, and raise their voices, while inviting reflection on the global food system and ongoing struggles for dignity, labour rights, and justice on farms.

*Carmen Louw* is the Women on Farms Project Co-Director and *Stephmarie Pekeur* is a Seasonal Farm Worker.

We are looking forward to share this space with agricultural practitioners, food rights activists and friends from the food sovereignty movements. You are warmly invited to join us and are welcome to share the invitation with your networks!

#FarmersWithoutBorders #WomenOnFarms #FarmersUnion #LabourUnion #LabourRights #Farming #SouthAfrica #Grapevines #ExportAgriculture #Agriculture #Agribusiness #Agroecology #FoodSovereignty #CarmenLouw #StephmariePekeur

🌾Online Event- Farm Workers in South Africa and the Struggle for Justice 🌾

with Carmen Louw and Stephmarie Pekeur, hosted in collaboration between Women on Farms Project and the Farmers Without Borders

🗓️ *Tuesday, 14.04.2026 at 6pm (CEST/SAST)*

💻 *Online – Please register here:* https://uni-kassel.zoom-x.de/meeting/register/9vBMIT2RRoC3fywYyBAr3g

South Africa’s agricultural sector is deeply integrated into global markets, supplying supermarkets worldwide with products such as table grapes and wine. Yet many (women) farm workers and farm dwellers behind these exports face precarious working and living conditions. On many farms, ownership and power remain concentrated among white farm owners, and everyday relations are still characterised by reflect inequalities rooted in apartheid.

This online event explores the realities of life and work on South African farms. We will discuss power dynamics in the agricultural sector, the role of agribusiness, housing and living conditions, gendered experiences of farm labour, and how women workers navigate growing precarity. The conversation also highlights how farm workers and dwellers organize, resist, and raise their voices, while inviting reflection on the global food system and ongoing struggles for dignity, labour rights, and justice on farms.

*Carmen Louw* is the Women on Farms Project Co-Director and *Stephmarie Pekeur* is a Seasonal Farm Worker.

We are looking forward to share this space with agricultural practitioners, food rights activists and friends from the food sovereignty movements. You are warmly invited to join us and are welcome to share the invitation with your networks!

#FarmersWithoutBorders #WomenOnFarms #FarmersUnion #LabourUnion #LabourRights #Farming #SouthAfrica #Grapevines #ExportAgriculture #Agriculture #Agribusiness #Agroecology #FoodSovereignty #CarmenLouw #StephmariePekeur

From the New York Times:

>Will there be a Needle?
>
>If you are reading this, you’re probably familiar with the Needle, a statistical model and visual display that analyzes both what we know about reported results and what’s left to count, and offers a sense of what might be coming.
>
>We’re planning to publish the Needle tonight. But the Needle relies on data from an array of local jurisdictions, **as well as computer systems maintained by engineers across the company who are currently on strike**. So, we’ll publish when we know the data is flowing smoothly and our technical systems are stable.
>
>And whether the Needle is live on the home screen or not, Times journalists will be looking at the data we collect and using the statistical model to publish frequent updates about what we learn.

Yeah. Those systems are gonna melt the fuck down.

#uspol #nyt #nytimes #NewYorkTimes #TheNewYorkTimes #union #unions #TradeUnionism #labor #labour #LaborUnion #LaborUnions #LabourUnion #LabourUnions

From the New York Times:

>Will there be a Needle?
>
>If you are reading this, you’re probably familiar with the Needle, a statistical model and visual display that analyzes both what we know about reported results and what’s left to count, and offers a sense of what might be coming.
>
>We’re planning to publish the Needle tonight. But the Needle relies on data from an array of local jurisdictions, **as well as computer systems maintained by engineers across the company who are currently on strike**. So, we’ll publish when we know the data is flowing smoothly and our technical systems are stable.
>
>And whether the Needle is live on the home screen or not, Times journalists will be looking at the data we collect and using the statistical model to publish frequent updates about what we learn.

Yeah. Those systems are gonna melt the fuck down.

#uspol #nyt #nytimes #NewYorkTimes #TheNewYorkTimes #union #unions #TradeUnionism #labor #labour #LaborUnion #LaborUnions #LabourUnion #LabourUnions