The farm had 17 workers comprising eight women and nine men together with farm dwellers who were not farm employees. The farm owner reported that when he bought the farm, he also inherited problems such as decaying buildings. Of the 34 people with partners and children, 12 had a legal right to stay on the farm. The illegal farm dwellers had turned down his offer of working on the farm as well as the subsidy he offered them to buy houses of their own in town. This would have created a space to build decent houses for the employees. The farmer felt that the issue of farm dwellers was being politicised.