To tar all farmers with the same brush is indeed counter productive and will do irreparable harm to those farmers, and consequently their workers, that pay way beyond the minimum wage.
I recently received information that prices paid for fruit from South Africa by the UK markets is 20% less than from other countries.
Furthermore South African farmers, unlike their counter parts in Europe and America receive no government subsidies and are competing on unlevel playing fields.
Perhaps we should look at a "name and shame" of farmers that do exploit their workforce and a boycott of those supermarkets that continue to believe Africa is not worthy of a comparable price?

Is this what Tony, Marius and Nosey really want? The Fnb was accused of treason for some ads.This is a lot closer to treason in my book.Nuts!!!

Good points Andrew! A "name and shame" campaign should be top of the list. If don't collectively cut out the dead wood of our industry by becoming transparent and willing to expose those causing these troubles, then we only have ourselves to blame when the whole ship rots and sinks.

Who is to judge the 'deadwood'? Tony Ehrenreich allready seem to know who the bad farmers are, while Joemat-petterson, Minister of Agriculture - minister to both farmers and workers - congratulates the workers on their 'victory' over the farmers, polarizing them further.
There are more factors at play here than just wages.
Sandra