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Agricultural body warns against impractical race-based employment targets [SOUND]

# Agricultural organisation TLU SA is concerned about the government’s newly implemented employment equity regulations, which introduce race-based deployment targets. The rules, which came into effect this month, aim to improve workplace diversity by increasing the number of black people, women, and people with disabilities in various jobs. However, the organisation’s Bennie van Zyl says the targets don’t suit the realities of the farming sector and are based more on politics than practical needs:

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