South African police fired rubber bullets and stun grenades at hundreds of striking farm workers who blocked a highway in the grape-growing Western Cape on Wednesday, the first clashes of a year likely to be marked by fractious labor relations. The strikers had piled burning tires across the main highway through the town of De Doorns, 100 kilometers east of Cape Town, to demand higher wages, a Reuters reporter on the scene said. Four people were hospitalized for minor injuries from rubber ...
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