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ANC calls for boycott of SA wines
14 November 2012  by Fin 24
Johannesburg - The ANC in the Eastern Cape called for the boycott of South African wines on Tuesday as farmworkers demanded higher wages and better working conditions.
Eastern Cape ANC spokesperson Mlibo Qoboshiyane said people would be supporting workers' exploitation if they continued buying South African-produced wine.

"Next time people binge on wines from the Western Cape, they must know that they support exploitation of black workers," he said.

Farmworkers in the De Doorns area went on strike a week ago in demand of a R150 daily wage and better working conditions. Qoboshiyane said farmers could afford to pay the workers what they wanted.

"The South African wine industry is making a lot of money locally and internationally; therefore, the wage demands of the workers are realistic and can be met by the employers."

He said Western Cape premier Helen Zille was failing to back the workers because farm owners were financing the Democratic Alliance - the party she leads.

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Wine Farm Workers Johan - 17 November 2012
The unrest is fuelled by Tony of Cosatu and the ANC. The only way they get support is by exploiting the poorly educated. The ANC employs thousands of poorly educated people that is why they are unable to provide decent services. To destroy everything in a process to get more by violence, intimidation and appalling behaviour is not gaining respect and so they shoot themselves in the foot. More mechanisation would follow and thousands of "workers" would be jobless in future. Small gains now would have devastating consequences later because fewer people would be employed, paid more, but the total pay role would be the same. That is how business works. To boycott sales would result in less income and less to share with workers. The irresponsible "leaders" of cosatu and ANC try for political gain now but the whole world laughs at them because the self destruct and ruin the lives of thousands because nobody would respect them for their disgusting deeds and stupidity.


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