This followed a number of cross-border permit applications the department's public employment services received from agricultural sector. The director of the unit, Mantombi Bobani, said the department was concerned with the number of cross-border work permit applications received, while the country is faced with unemployment, poverty and inequality problems. She said that, among others, the employer needs to provide evidence that indeed, the local market has been tested, this evidence includes proof that the opportunities that are available were advertised in a national newspaper with farmers exempted to use the services of local newspapers, and local community leaders engaged to assist in getting the required workforce. Bobani was speaking  Brits, North West, at the multi-stakeholder engagement session aimed at seeking ideas on how the local work seekers could be encouraged to see the values that the sector has, and be absorbed in it.

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A farmer from Bultfontein in the Free State was released on R3 000 bail after he allegedly accidentally shot one of his employees who he reportedly thought was an intruder. Police spokesperson, Stephen Thakeng, told OFM News that Abel Strauss appeared in the Bultfontein Magistrate's Court this week on charges of attempted murder, and the possession of an unlicensed firearm. Thakeng says Strauss's employee, Johannes Jantjie, went to the farmhouse at about 21:20 on November 3. Jantjies was taken to hospital and Strauss was arrested. The firearm, a .22 Barretta, was confiscated. Strauss will be back in court on November 26 when his trial is expected to start.

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