TimesLive reports that tens of thousands of seasonal farmworkers, whose jobs are already on the line because of a crippling drought, are now facing another employment threat in that farmers, who claim they cannot any longer afford the prescribed minimum wages, are choosing to hire cheaper foreign workers.  In 2013 the minimum prescribed wages for farmworkers rose by 52%.

• Read this report by Shenaaz Jamal in full at TimesLive

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