Labour minister calls for peaceful farm-worker protests
01 Feb 2016 | Admin Author
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Labour Minister Mildred Oliphant has called for peaceful protests during a farmworkers' pay strike on Tuesday.
She said in a statement on Monday that violence has no place in a South African society whose foundation as a democracy is based on intensive social dialogue.
Last week, the minister said it would be impossible to meet the workers' December 4 deadline, by which they had wanted their demands addressed.