Today, Women on Farms Project (WFP) together with Oxfam Germany and Oxfam South Africa, will be hosting a mass event calling for an end to the Double Standards Pesticides global program. The campaign requests the South African government to ban 67 pesticides pesticides/active ingredients that were already banned in the European Union.
The event will take place at the Ashley Kriel Hall, Community House in Salt River from 09:00 to 12:00. After which, we will lead a protest march to the German Consulate General to hand over a memorandum of our demands to the German government.
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