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🗓️ 4 April 2023
⏱️ 19 minutes
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The Khoi and San people, who discovered rooibos tea, have only recently started receiving a share of the industry's multimillion-pound profits.
They tell us about their fight to get the money they're owed and we hear from the rooibos farmers who are now having to pay out. We also find out what this deal could mean for other indigenous groups in a similar situation.
Presenter: Mohammed Allie Producer: Jo Critcher Image: Princess Chantal Revell from the National Khoi and San Council, drinking rooibos tea; Credit: Princess Chantal Revell
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0:00.0 | abnormal transactions. Some kind of cyber attack on a bank. |
0:05.1 | Tens of millions of dollars. |
0:07.0 | Something I don't think anybody has seen before. |
0:09.1 | It's a cybercriminal group. |
0:10.7 | From the BBC World Service. |
0:12.5 | The Lazarus Heist is back for season two. |
0:14.7 | It was really like in the movies. |
0:16.2 | Find out more at the end of this podcast. |
0:24.6 | Hi, I'm Mohamed Ali. Welcome to Business Daily on the BBC World Service. Today, we're looking at the Roybos tea industry in South Africa. We speak to the |
0:31.0 | indigenous Koi and Sand people, who have finally got their first share in the profits. |
0:36.6 | It is the start. We're not going to stay there, but it's not enough. |
0:40.9 | And to the farmers who are having to pay out. |
0:44.0 | They took a long time to come to agreement, to set up the structures. |
0:50.1 | This is Business Daily from the BBC. |
0:54.9 | Roybos literally means red bush in Afrikaans, |
0:58.3 | and it's the name given to the reddish caffeine-free drink, |
1:02.1 | which is produced from the plant. |
1:04.2 | It can only be grown in one region of South Africa, |
1:07.3 | and it's on the European Union's origin protected list. |
1:12.8 | This wilderness of craggy peaks, clean air and pure mountain streams is called the Cedarberg Mountains. |
1:22.8 | This is the only place in the world where Roybos, a plant with extraordinary health-promoting properties, |
1:29.9 | grows naturally. |
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