Farmworkers commute daily from Khayelitsha to agricultural regions like Stellenbosch or Somerset West because the agricultural sector relies primarily on seasonal labor rather than permanent resident workers. Simultaneously, lack of affordable housing and historical evictions push workers into informal townships, while farmers contract daily transport, and the workers are bussed like cattle to the strawberry fields or to the grape fields. The Legacy of Apartheid: Under apartheid spatial planning, Black South Africans were restricted from living permanently in historically "white" commercial farming towns. This forced them into designated peripheral townships without indoor plumbing.
Farmworkers commute daily from Khayelitsha to agricultural regions like Stellenbosch or Somerset West because the agricultural sector relies primarily on seasonal labor rather than permanent resident workers. Simultaneously, lack of affordable housing and historical evictions push workers into informal townships, while farmers contract daily transport, and the workers are bussed like cattle to the strawberry fields or to the grape fields. The Legacy of Apartheid: Under apartheid spatial planning, Black South Africans were restricted from living permanently in historically "white" commercial farming towns. This forced them into designated peripheral townships without indoor plumbing.
