SAPToA Demands urgency, prosecution, and compensation SAPToA press release The South African People’s Tribunal on Agrotoxins (SAPToA) has delivered a forceful submission, supporting the Minister of Agriculture’s long overdue intention to ban Terbufos, an organophosphate pesticide classified by the World…
Press release: South African People’s Tribunal on AgroToxins (SAPToA)17 June 2025 On June 16th, South Africans remember the many young people who died for our democracy. We also remember the young people who died through neglect as a result of…
UPDATE: Watch a recording of the Parliamentary Briefing below. Business Day covered the briefing, highlighting Judge Navi Pillay’s call for the Department of Agriculture to “urgently start phasing out the use of toxic chemicals, beginning with HHPs. She said it was…
People’s Tribunal on AgroToxins to expose agriculture’s ugly secrets Press Release 18 March 2025 On Human Rights weekend, the South African People’s Tribunal on AgroToxins will put the government on trial in the court of public opinion for gross…
South Africa (SA)’s pesticide policy is outdated and urgently in need of an overhaul The law that regulates agrotoxins in South Africa is the Fertilizers; Farm Feeds Agricultural Remedies and Stock Remedies Act 36 of 1947. Being nearly 80 years…
On the 21st of February, Unpoison SA published an update of the database of highly hazardous pesticides registered for use in South Africa that they initially published two years earlier. Shockingly, unlike other countries, this database has hitherto not been…
This was a according to a media statement release on 12 February addressed to the Portfolio Committee on Agriculture. The week before, on 4 February the Commission met with the Portfolio Committee on Agriculture, the Minister of Agriculture, John Steenhuisen;…
Farm workers are exposed to dangerous pesticides daily, often the most severe class – highly hazardous pesticides (HHPs). While men often do the spraying, women farmworkers are also vulnerable to pesticide exposure, which occurs in multiple ways, including when pesticides…
SAPToA reports CropLife and Food for Mzansi for weaponising children in comic book & for false and dangerous advertising Press release: South African People’s Tribunal on AgroToxins 29 January 2025 The South African People’s Tribunal on AgroToxins (SAPToA) has submitted…