Farmworkers Coalition give ultimatum to government

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 Farmworkers have threatened to go back to the streets if their demand for a R150m is not heeded.

The Coalition of Farm Worker Representatives says the strike by farmworkers has been suspended until government makes a determination on the minimum wage.

It says it has given government until the 4th of December to institute the minimum wage of R150 per day and to concede to other demands that farmworkers are in the process of gathering.

The organisation's Billy Xabela warned that if they do not do so, December 4 will see the intensification of protest actions, both in scope and in militancy.

He said the organisation rejected views that the strike on Western Cape farms was the outcome of interventions by outside forces.