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/ 8 April 2004

Farm workers’ rights in a 10-year time warp

"The farmer always carries a gun and sometimes, if a worker makes a mistake, he points the gun at the worker," says a worker on a farm near Grahamstown. "The relationship between us and the farmer is bad," he adds. "The farmer swears at us and calls us names like kaffir," says a worker on another farm. "There are times when he beats us."