deadlock in wage negotiations
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- Workers ruined farmer's cars, and property, and set tyres on fire during the rebellion. Thousands of farm workers in De Doorns marched to the N1 on January 9,2013 and blocked the traffic. During the strike period, police brutality, with rubber bullets being used to target and striking crowds.
- The Department of Health shuttered clinics in Ceres and De Doorns in mid-January 2013. Theuns Botha, the Western Cape Health Minister, justified the clinic closures by saying, "We cannot afford to put our health workers who work at these clinics in danger, so we are compelled to close the clinics."
- According to reports, the Bawsi AgriculturalWorkers Union of South Africa was at the vanguard of the strike at DeDoorns in January 2013. During the strikes, BAWUSA's membership grew, accordingto Nosey Pieterse, the secretary general. Workers, on the other hand, operatedmostly on their own initiative.
- Minister of Agriculture, Forestry, and FisheriesTina Joemat-Pettersson convened a meeting to encourage parties to settle the strike through discussions. however, was cancelled because several of theparties believed they lacked the authority.
- Strikes began again on January after unsuccessful salary discussions. “We're at the point where the mandate from workers is to renew the strike on January 9,” Ehrenreich said in a statement on January 4. According to Ehrenreich, do not provide realistic answers to farm employees.
- Mildred Oliphant, the Minister of Labour, said on 4 February 2013 that the minimum wage would be increased from R69 to R105,with effect from March 2013. This sectoral development would last three years, with wages rising in lockstep with inflation in the second and third years.
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