South Africa: Tensions Remain Following Dismissals of Workers in De Doorns

30 January 2013
opinion

Hundreds of farmworkers in the De Doorns area have been fired after the end of the farmworkers strike in the area on 22 January.

The strike had been called off by COSATU the week before, but the seemingly dominant union in the area, the Bawsi Agriculture Workers Union of South Africa (Bawusa), suspended the strike days later. Clashes between police and protesters resulted in at least one death, many injuries and 181 arrests of striking farmworkers.

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