A new book by Dr Susan Levine, a senior lecturer in the School of African and Gender Studies, Anthropology and Linguistics, has laid bare an uncomfortable truth about child labour on South African wine farms. Consisting of 100 short stories documenting moments in the lives of children, some as young as nine, who worked on the Cape wine farms between 1996 and 2010, the book – Children of a Bitter Harvest: Child labour in the Cape winelands – challenges readers to think a little more deeply about the origins of the products they consume.
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