Showing posts with label Ripe with Abuse:Human Rights Conditions in South Africa’s Fruit and Wine Industries. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Ripe with Abuse:Human Rights Conditions in South Africa’s Fruit and Wine Industries. Show all posts

Wednesday, November 2, 2016

A documentary raises questions about ‘slavery’ in South Africa’s vineyards - The Washington Post

"Danish journalist Tom Heinemann, director of the film “Bitter Grapes,” visited wine farms in South Africa’s bucolic Western Cape, where he found that some workers were allegedly being paid less than the minimum wage, exposed to pesticides, consuming dangerous amounts of alcohol and discouraged from joining unions, among other problems."

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