Cooperatives briefed on R600m mega farming project

By |2018-04-13T12:03:10+00:00April 5th, 2018|Afesis in Action, Consultancies and Special Projects, News|

By Afesis-corplan THE Eastern Cape Rural Development Agency (ECRDA) will spend R600-million on a farming project targeting 12 villages in Tshabo, outside King William’s Town. Afesis-corplan is drafting a social contract for the project through a public participation process to ensure that commitments made by the communities, represented by 12 cooperatives, and government are clearly [...]

Housing Co-operatives

By |2017-06-22T11:31:16+00:00June 22nd, 2017|Sustainable Settlements|

A co-operative is where a group of people (homeless, consumers, unemployed) come together to address a common need (houses, cheap food, jobs) through a jointly owned and democratically controlled organisation (housing co-op, consumer co-op, worker co-op) that follows the cooperative principles (voluntary, democratic, econ participation, independent, training, cooperation between co-ops, concern for community). The International [...]

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