After analyzing the working conditions of sugar-cane cutter Juraci Barbosa, 39, who died on June 29, 2006, the Brazilian government’s Public Ministry of Labor concluded that before dropping dead, ...

Born in Guyana, Deo Persaud grew up in Georgetown. He was educated in the UK, and has lived and worked there for the last fifty years. Part of his work while living there was documentary photography ...

Harvinder Khetal The reader is inexorably drawn to turning the pages of this book as the bleak tale of the Indian emigrant cane-cutter, who fled his hometown of Madurai after seeing his ...

RELEASED to coincide with the 165th anniversary of the first indentured labourers from India to arrive in Natal in November, The Cane Cutter uses a unique style of filmmaking, blending documentary ...

Agricultural equipment suppliers Northmec and New Holland South Africa, the agricultural machinery arms of CSE Equipment Company, have been appointed sole distributors of a new sugar cane cutter ...

Kolhapur: A 45-year-old sugar cane cutter, Limbabai Rohidas Rathod, a native of Bibi village in Lonar tehsil of Buldhana, was attacked by a wild animal early on Wednesday at Nevri in Kadegaon tehsil ...

While the movie The Cane Cutter is awash with the well-known trauma, tragedies and triumphs of the Indian indentured labourers since their arrival in South Africa, the film is also a celebration of ...

A day after he was burnt while working in the cane fields, Rajpaul Jhagroo was fatally struck by a minibus yesterday on the Bath Public Road, West Coast Berbice. At the time of the accident Jhagroo, ...

An emergency helicopter has flown a man in his 70s to hospital after he was crushed by cane cutting equipment on a property north of Mackay. UPDATES. The incident occurred on private property on ...

And now a bronze statue, named Joe and crafted by a Nebo artist, sits near the banks of the Pioneer River in the heart of cane country. And spearheading the push for tribute Marian’s history was ...

The Maharashtra government has set up a committee to look into allegations that sugarcane-cutter women workers in Beed district are being forced to get their uterus removed to avoid taking breaks from ...