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Department of Rural Development and Land Reform’s key programmes and policies intended to benefit women and persons with disabilities in South Africa Presentation to the Portfolio Committee on Women in the Presidency 11 August 2015. EMPLOYMENT EQUITY. EMPLOYING MORE PERSONS WITH DISABILITY
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Department of Rural Development and Land Reform’s key programmes and policies intended to benefit women and persons with disabilities in South AfricaPresentation to the Portfolio Committee on Women in the Presidency11 August 2015
EMPLOYMENT EQUITY EMPLOYING MORE PERSONS WITH DISABILITY • Engagement with the disability sector; • Componenets to reserve a certain number of posts to which only PWD’s can be appointed • The publication of post for which only PWD’s may apply • Publication of our vacancies on electronic bulletin boards and other media dedicated to the disiability sector GENDER • Stricter control over deviation requests from the employment equity plan • Providng more financial support to woman wrt bursaries and development • Growing the talent pipeline with a majoity of woman
SUPPORT TO RURAL WOMEN • Support of rural arts and craft cooperatives • to participate in various exhibitions and markets, e.g. Decorex, SARCDA, Rand Show, GrahamstownFestiva; international marketsl : preparation, training and produce, orders and supply; (930 women participating) • Training for arts and craft cooperatives in issues of governance; • Retail shop opened for Arts and Crafts Coops in Durban • Arts and Crafts coops currently in process of establishing a cooperatives bank • Support to various women owned/managed rural enterprises in the agricultural and non-agricultural value chain, in all 9 provinces towards sustainable enterprise development and participation in the rural economy, example • AbafaziBesintu Agricultural Cooperative in the Eastern Cape; • Women in Poultry and Multi purpose Cooperative in Free State and • Women in Poultry Cooperative, Thembelani Bakery and Akwande crop production cooperatives in Gauteng • ReamatKreaxions sewing cooperative and Temothuo Essential Oils cooperative in Limpopo • Women and Youth vegetables, fruit and crop production cooperative in Mpumalanga • Rearoka Sewing cooperative in Northern Cape • Boinelo Tailoring and fashion designing Cooperative in North West • All other enterprises being supported involve women participants;
SUPPORT TO RURAL WOMEN • Infrastructure Development • Provision of water; sanitation; housing and energy to rural households; • Provision of bridges and roads (EC: Mvezo); ensures that women from surrounding villages have improved access and safety and dignity. • Training in ICT at schools and community level; • Animal and Veld Management programme • Several projects implemented across the country in soil rehabilitation; debushing to improve land for production; • National Rural Youth Service Corps • Youth recruited for a two year period and undergo various training (leadership training in partnership with SANDF; a minimum of NQF level two training at FETs; community service); • With every intake all provinces are required to ensure that 50% are female; • Several young women have also been part of the international exchange programme with China; • As at 31 October 2014, of the 14 576 NARYSEC youth, 8746 were women; • As at 30 June 2015, of the current 7758 NARYSEC youth in the programme, 4618 are women.
SUPPORT TO RURAL WOMEN IN THE Agri-Parks Programme • The Agri-Parks model envisages farmer control and ownership, (70/30%) of which at least 50% WOULD BE women farmers; • Through the program department envisages to increase the number of women small holder farmers who contribute to the Agri-Parks programme; • Of the 89 000 jobs envisaged to be created in the Agri-Parks, it is anticipated that at least 60% [53 400] should be women; the majority of these jobs would be within the agro-processing processes, • All enterprises supported within the value chain of the Agri-Parks will also be specifically targeting at least 60% women ownership and participation; • CROP PRODUCTIONCONSTRUCTION
SUPPORT TO PEOPLE WITH DISABILITY • Various enterprises and skills development opportunities include people with disabilities; • 6 Bosele School of Blind beneficiaries underwent training in practical weaving of floor and doormats. • Ireteleng project in Gauteng is a project specifically for the visually-impaired, producing arts and craft and fencing • Ikemeneng project consists of 20 visually-impaired members producing vegetables
LAND ACQUISITION AND RECAPITALISATION PROJECTS • Women farm workers and persons with disability, were among the latest land reform beneficiaries of a multi-million rand fund to acquire land through the Department of Rural Development and Land Reform programmes. SOME EXAMPLES • A game and livestock farm was acquired for R6.3 million under the department’s Proactive Land Acquisition Strategy (PLAS) for a female farmer with 21-years of farming experience at Limpopo’s Blouberg municipality. • The purpose of acquiring this farm is to support small-holder farmers farming in communal areas like Blouberg, • At the time of acquiring the farm the beneficiary was farming in a backyard with vegetables and had 40 cattle grazing on communal land and another 40 on privately leased land. • R3.8m land acquisition for 22 farm workers consisting of women and children from Zululand District, in KwaZulu-Natal. The farm dwellers will receive a full title on the land. • It was ascertained during a land rights enquiry that two families on the farm had resided there for over 40 years. These families own 22 cattle and 27 goats; • This was a practical step for us in strengthening the rights of farm dwellers working that land; • In Mpumalanga, the department acquired a farm for R4.1m and allocated it to a farmer with disabilities in the Ehlanzeni District. • The grazing land he was occupying was not big enough for his current livestock and it also prevented him from expanding his herd; • More importantly, the beneficiary was losing cattle due to livestock theft in the communal area. • A dairy farm was acquired for a MrsNgidi in KZN, a dairy farm;
Land Acquisition Summary • Overall progress regarding the redistribution of white owned agricultural land in South Africa (82 million ha) from 1994 to 31 March 2015 is such that there are 4 555 995 million ha under Land Redistribution through 5 184 projects, benefiting 235 609 beneficiaries of which 50 882 (21%) are women, 33 108 are youth and 678 are people with disability. • From 2009 to 31 March 2015 there are 1 488 241 million ha under Land Redistribution through 1 467 projects, benefiting 20 001 beneficiaries of which 8 297 (41%) are women, 6 149are youth and 49 are people with disability. • The above statistics suggests that there is 50% improvement (From 21% to 41%) in benefitting women under this programme in a form of either groups, individuals and black emergent farmers obtaining grants as well as land acquired under lease hold
Recapitalization and Development Generally, even though there are challenges in the implementation of the Recapitalization and Development programme significant progress has been made. The support varies from production inputs, Infrastructure, machinery and implements. There are 5 473 jobs created of which 2 523 (46%) are women. Also 2 202 farmers are capacitated in the form of training and 1 207 of such farmers are women
