South Africa: Western Cape's Grapes of Wrath

analysis

The ANC and the provincial ruling party bickered and pointed fingers in the DA-run Western Cape as farm workers burned vineyards. It has all the hallmarks of the ANC-run North West’s shame: poverty, pitiful wages, appalling living conditions and the ready exploitation of eager migrant workers. It is yet another powder keg waiting for a spark.

A fragile peace has descended on De Doorns, in the Western Cape’s Hex River Valley, where the Commission for Conciliation, Mediation and Arbitration (CCMA) is arbitrating between strikers and their employers after protests and wild rampages that saw some 30 or more hectares of vineyards burned and shops looted.

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