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Farmworkers and unions talk


Some striking farmworkers welcomed talks between unions and farm bosses on Friday, following two days of violent protest action.

The individual farmers agreed to a meeting organised by Cape Orchards Company chairperson Gerhard de Kock.

The COC represents 12 farms in the De Doorns Hex River Valley, which together produce approximately three million boxes of table grapes a year.

The area had been the epicentre of violent clashes between protesters and police on Wednesday and yesterday.

It was quiet on Friday with police patrolling the N1, which remained closed to traffic.