Question NW810 to the Minister of Agriculture, Land Reform and Rural Development
04 May 2023 - NW810
Cebekhulu, Inkosi RN to ask the Minister of Agriculture, Land Reform and Rural Development
Whether her department has any programmes and / or collaborations in place to provide financial management skills to rural farmworkers; if not, why not; if so, what are the relevant details?
Reply:
No, the Department does not have any collaboration in the provision of financial management skills to rural farmworkers. The Department has support programmes for farm dwellers and labour tenants under the Extension of Security of Tenure Act [No. 62 of 1997] ESTA. There is no special programme to support farm workers. If farm workers have farming practices outside their employ, they would apply for support like any other farmer supported by the Department.