GRABOUW – Trade union federation, Cosatu is canvassing support ahead of its May Day rally next week.

Its members, along with its affiliate, textile workers’ union Sactwu, are in Grabouw in the Western Cape to enquire about farmworkers’ working conditions.

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Illegal evictions, slave wages and dangerous working conditions are some of the issues they’ve promised to fight.

Workers’ Day celebrations will be used to call for land expropriation.

“This is the start of making sure that all of the farm workers in this country benefit from the laws that said land expropriation without compensation where it is necessary,” said Western Cape Cosatu chairperson, Tony Ehrenreich. 

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