WEBINAR New minimum wage: can farmers afford it?

Farmer’s Weekly and Agri SA hosted a webinar to discuss the new minimum wage increase, what options there are for farmers to apply for exemption, and the affordability of the minimum wage for various farming sectors.

Farmer’s Weekly editor Denene Erasmus welcomed speakers Christo van der Rheede, Agri SA executive director; Lebogang Sethusha, head of Agri SA’s Labour and Development Centre of Excellence; Richard Nicholson, economic research manager at the South African Cane Growers’ Association; and Dr Koos Coetzee, an independent agricultural economist. #AgWageWebinar

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1. An overview of the minimum wage process – Christo van der Rheede
2. Applying for an exemption – Lebogang Sethusha
3. Sugar industry perspective – Richard Nicholson