Rubber bullets fired as striking wine workers clash with police

Описание: (14 Jan 2013)
1. Mid of riot police retreating and shooting rubber bullets, with shacks and protesters in background
2. Mid of protesters throwing stones
3. Close of police officer taking cover behind wall
4. Close of police officer with side-arm pistol dodging rock
5. Mid of protesters carrying makeshift shields and throwing rocks
6. Mid of policeman dodging rocks
7. Mid of armoured police vehicle moving towards protesters, with police officers advancing
8. Wide of three policemen running up street and shooting
9. Wide of large crowd of protesters throwing rocks
10. Close of arrested protester being put into back of police van
11. Wide of policeman firing rubber bullets with protesters in background
12. Wide of protesters chanting at police
13. Wide of protesters
14. Wide of armoured police cars with police officers and large crowd in background
STORYLINE:
Violent protests erupted again in South Africa's western wine-lands on Monday, with running battles between protesters and police, who made several arrests.
In the Western Cape town of Villiersdorp, farm labourers and police exchanged volleys of rocks and rubber bullets.
The still-closed N1 highway remained littered with the debris from days of protests.
Labour unrest has been reported in several parts of Western Cape province, where similar protests last year also turned violent, resulting in at least two deaths.
The protesters are campaigning for higher wages and to prevent other farmhands from going to work.
They want their daily wages to be more than doubled to 150 South African rand (17.5 US dollars).
As the African National Congress (ANC) called for the farm workers to call off their strike, workers continued to receive their meagre daily pay of 79 rand (9 US dollars).
Negotiations started on Friday between trade unions and representatives of the farm workers.
However, local media reported on Monday that these negotiations had since broken down.
South Africa is a major wine producer. In addition to grape-harvesting, workers involved in the protests work on apple and other fruit farms.
The country's mining industry was also shaken by labour unrest last year.
Some of those protests turned violent, culminating in the shooting deaths of several dozen miners by police at a platinum mine.


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