Fair Trade

Fair Trade is a global movement that aims to improve production and trading conditions to benefit smallholders, farm workers and disadvantaged employees and artisans. You are currently on the Fair Trade South Africa website.

Other Fair Trade organisations in South Africa

Other Fair Trade organisations in Africa

News + Highlights

Fair Mail: March-April 2012: 

We're please to bring to you our Fair Mail newsletter for March and April, even though it contains more information for the upcoming months! 


International Consumer Rights Day - The Right to Buy Fair: 

Today the world celebrates International Consumer Rights Day: An annual campaign driven by Consumers International to promote basic consumer rights, demand respect and protection of those rights, and to protest the market abuses and social injustices which undermine them. 


Fairtrade and Fairmined Gold celebrates first birthday and moves into Africa: 

The world’s first independent ethical certification system for responsibly mined gold – Fairtrade and Fairmined gold – celebrates its first anniversary this Fairtrade Fortnight (27 Feb – 11 March).


Previous newsletters

Fair Mail: March-April 2012: 

We're please to bring to you our Fair Mail newsletter for March and April, even though it contains more information for the upcoming months! 


Fair Mail: January-February 2012: 

Our first newsletter for 2012 is out! Take a moment to update yourself on some key messages and statistics from various fair trade initiatives. 


Fair Mail: December 2011: 

We share with you our final newsletter of 2011 and send with it greetings and well wishes for the festive season from the Fair Trade House in Cape Town. 

2011 has been a critical year for the Network as many changes were implemented, which you can read in the Chairman's report in the newsletter.  

The newsletter also includes articles from Alison Montgomery, who did her doctoral fieldwork in SA for 18 months in the Fairtrade winelands, as well as Malcolm Clark from Fairtrade London, who enjoyed a Fair Trade Tourism tour up the West Coast. 


Fair Trade & Fairtrade: What is the difference?

Fair trade (2 words) is a movement that looks at achieving a more equal and sustainable trade and therefore refers to all initiatives that work to achieve it.

Fairtrade (1 word) is the most internationally recognised Certification Mark for fair trade and is owned by the Fairtrade Labelling Organisations International (FLO e.V.). The Fairtrade Mark is applied on products that comply with the standards developed by FLO e.V.

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