Statement by Honourable Elleck Nchabeleng, Chairperson of Portfolio Committee on Labour, on recent farm visits
31 Jan 2012
Ladies and gentlemen, thank you very much for attending this media conference.
Before we start with this press briefing, we would like to send our sincere condolences to the families of farmworkers who died in a car accident in Gouda. We would also like to wish those injured a speedy recovery.
Coming back to the main reason of this press conference, last week we embarked on oversight visits to farms in the Western Cape. We visited farms in the following areas: Citrusdal, Robertson, Worcester and Paarl.
The purpose of the visits was to assess how labour inspectors perform their duties in this sector in order to understand their daily challenges and to avoid making unreasonable expectations and recommendations that might be misplaced and impractical.