Farm workers demanded changes to land distribution and a moratorium on evictions from farms. Moneyweb FarmWorkersStrike
“We provide this country with food yet we don’t have any food,” a farm worker from the Northern Cape said in front of Parliament in Cape Town on Friday. Laura Boer has been working on a farm for nearly four years. She said that farm workers barely make the minimum wage. They are landless, and they are constantly facing evictions from farms.
We can no longer continue being dependent on farmers,” she said. The protest followed week-long meetings which brought together speakers from trade unions, civic organisations, government departments, and researchers. Topics ranged from illegal farm worker evictions, and landlessness to pesticide exposure, and labour rights violations. About 200 farm workers marched to Parliament on Friday.
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