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Buwa Basebetsi Updates: ZGG foreign national workers barred from work

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ZGG a vegetable and flowers farm west of Johannesburg has ordered 37 of its
foreign national employees to stop coming to work if they do not have work permits or Asylum Seekers documents. They have been given two weeks or kiss their jobs a goodbye. This is even though some of them have been working on this farm for more than 10 years without these documents being an issue.
11 Oct 2024 English South Africa Non-Profit · News

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