CAPE TOWN: Violent protests by South African farm workers demanding wage hikes have left two people dead this week, police said yesterday, after the body of a seasonal worker was discovered.
“The body of 40-year-old Bongile Ndleni was found in his residence on Saturday morning. Indications are that he was shot on Wednesday... on a farm in the Prince Alfred Hamlet area,” about 150km northeast of Cape Town, said regional police spokesman Andre Traut. “We have reason to believe that his death was caused by... gunshot wound, and therefore a murder case was registered.”
The unrest shaking the Western Cape farming heartland started earlier this month in De Doorns, a grape farming town outside Cape Town, where vineyards were set alight. AFP
