South African Farms Unaffected by Strikes, Agri SA Says

Strikes and protests that resumed in rural areas of Western Cape Province yesterday don’t appear to have affected production and harvesting, South Africa’s main farmers’ organization said.

“There has been some indication of intimidation and threats that have caused people to stay at home,” Anton Rabe, chairman of Agri SA’s labor committee, said today by phone from Paarl, near Cape Town. “It is impossible to quantify that. It seems as if most problems are in some of the rural towns.”