# Civil society organisations are calling for a forensic investigation into the farm worker equity schemes. The schemes are intended to economically empower farm workers by giving them equity in the farms or agribusinesses in which they were employed, as a means of social upliftment and redress. Of 88 schemes launched from 1996 to 2008, only nine ever declared dividends. The organisations told Parliament that despite over 700-million-rand in public investment, very few of these schemes have delivered any meaningful returns to farm worker beneficiaries.
Civil society organisations calling for a probe into failed farm worker equity schemes