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SowetanLive reports that President Cyril Ramaphosa has had to retrench over 20 workers at one of his farms due to foot-and-mouth disease and bad trading conditions.
Ramaphosa drove to his Ntabanyoni farm in Badplaas, Mpumalanga, himself on 25 October to deliver the bad news to the workers. He told them that 22 out of 46 full-time employees at the farm were to lose their jobs. The news left many of the workers devastated. Some of them have appealed to the president "to find ways" to help them feed their families. In Ntabanyoni Ramaphosa farms a rare breed of cattle known as Ankole. He first imported the breed from Uganda and is regarded as the biggest Ankole farmer in the country. Ntabanyoni's operations manager, Ben Molotsi, confirmed the retrenchments. He said they were mainly as a result of a foot-and-mouth outbreak that caused major losses for the farm. The farm, he added, had only two options, namely reduce the number of staff or face liquidation. “We have done all processes for retrenchment, they were alerted earlier, they got their 13th Cheque and we have paid them retrenchment severance up to 18 days and they were also paid their day offs too," Molotsi indicated. He also said the company had agreed to pay half of the former employees' fees towards skills development courses.
- Read the full original of the report in the above regard by Mandla Khoza at SowetanLive
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