JOHANNESBURG - Corporate responsibility means that companies allocate budgets for bursaries, low-cost housing, healthcare facilities and education.
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However an organisation working with rural communities, farm workers and small-scale farmers to fight land dispossession and food injustice, questions the public image of corporate responsibility in South Africa saying it hides entrenched harm.
Brian Adams, the CEO of the Surplus People Project says corporate awards and weak state enforcement enable a failure of justice for rural communities.
Adams discussed this with eNCA.