NGO Slams Farmers Over Wages

The Nkuzi Development Association has slammed the attitude of farm owners towards minimum wages for farm workers in Limpopo.

A spokesperson for the organisation, Shirhami Shirinda says it is unacceptable that farmers will have to hide behind minimum wages when some of them are not even paying as required by law.

“There are those few farms where accommodation is better. I am talking of a situation like ZZ2, even though people are staying in over-crowded situations. But, in most of the farms, workers are accommodated in what we call cow sheds where farmers are keeping food for the cattle,” says Shirinda.

The criticism follows an indication by the Transvaal Agricultural Union that it could lay off some of their workers because they ca not meet the demands for rising minimum wages for farm workers.

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