Eastern Cape MEC calls for boycott of Western Cape wines

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 The ANC in the Eastern Cape has called for the boycott of South African wines as farmworkers demand higher wages and better working conditions.

Eastern Cape ANC spokesperson Mlibo Qoboshiyane said people would be supporting workers' exploitation if they continued buying South African-produced wine.

Farmworkers in the De Doorns area of the Western Cape went on strike a week ago in demand of a R150 daily wage and better working conditions.

Qoboshiyane claimed that farmers could afford to meet the workers' demands.

Meanwhile: Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Minister Tina Joemat-Pettersson has called for an end to the violence in the De Doorns area.

She was commenting after being asked by worker representatives and unions to escalate their demands to an inter-ministerial meeting to review the minimum wage for the entire agriculture sector.