Frustration levels in South Africa’s small-scale fisheries are at boiling point. Today, thousands of small-scale fishers representing South Africa’s small scale fisheries, have marched in Cape Town. They are protesting that they are being treated unfairly which includes the withholding of rights. They are delivering a memorandum to Parliament which coincidently happens to be hosting…
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