How Colonialization Influenced Malbec and More
As people migrated with their agricultural traditions, certain grape varieties became associated with far-flung regions. Read their stories.
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As people migrated with their agricultural traditions, certain grape varieties became associated with far-flung regions. Read their stories.
Why are members of the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) picketing outside billionaire Johann Rupert’s farms in the Western Cape and Mpumalanga?
EFF members have gathered for a march to businessman Johan Rupert's wine farm in the Stellenbosch area to show its disdain for the arrival of Jan van Riebeeck 370 years ago, and the colonial legacies that launched the hefty portfolios of billionaires such as Rupert's.
They want to hand over a memorandum to business tycoon Johann Rupert.
The EFF plans to picket outside a wine estate and other farms owned by the nation’s richest man to mark the day colonialism started in the country.