by Masifundise | Oct 5, 2016 | Coastal Links, Discussion Papers, Latest News, Policy Process, Small-scale Fishing
Small-scale fishers through-out South Africa whose names do not appear on the provisional verified fishers’ lists published for their communities must lodge appeals within the prescribed period of 30 days after the publication of the provisional list. Naseegh Jaffer,...
by Masifundise | Sep 29, 2016 | Discussion Papers, Latest News, Policy Process, Small-scale Fishing
The Department of Agriculture Forestry and Fisheries released a provincial gazette on fishing rights allocation in the Northern Cape. The gazette, released on the 9 of September states that small-scale fishing rights will be valid for a period of three years with an...
by Masifundise | Sep 29, 2016 | Coastal Links, Discussion Papers, Latest News, Media Statements, Policy Process, Small-scale Fishing
Representatives of more than 4 000 small-scale fishers countrywide today took a unanimous decision to launch a mass campaign to secure their basic human rights. About 70 representatives from Coastal Links South Africa branches in more than 100 coastal communities...
by Masifundise | Sep 29, 2016 | Discussion Papers, Latest News, Policy Process, Small-scale Fishing
Government should assist communities in forming and sustaining cooperatives to limit the potential of cooperative failure in small-scale fishing communities. This is a sentiment expressed by delegates at a national workshop held in Cape Town this week. The delegates,...
by Masifundise | Sep 29, 2016 | Discussion Papers, Media Statements, Policy Process, Small-scale Fishing
The first list of verified fishers have been released by the Department of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (DAFF) on August 26, and on all accounts it seemed not have been favourable towards hundreds of fishers from the Northern Cape towns of Port Nolloth and...
by Masifundise | Sep 29, 2016 | Coastal Links, Discussion Papers, Policy Process, Small-scale Fishing
Coastal Links member Rowina Marthinus from Aniston and Masifundise’s field worker for KwazuluNatal Lindani Ngubane this week returned from a festival in Italy where they did a presentation on South Africa’s small-scale fisheries (ssf) policy. The Slow Food Festival is...
