Bitre Druer – dokumentar og debat

Bitter Grapes – Slavery in the Vineyards. A critical documentary by award-winning journalist Tom Heinemann.

This hotly debated documentary takes viewers on a journey behind the closed gates of some industrial wineries in South Africa, and shows how farm workers live their life under dire, exploitative conditions remindful of Apartheid. These include, but are not limited to, below-minimum-wage pay, unfair evictions, unfair dismissals, lack of sanitation, uninhabitable housing, lack of security training and equipment, and constant harassment of trade union members.

Heinemann also points the finger at WIETA (Wine and Agricultural Ethical Trade Initiative), the South African association guaranteeing ethically sound conditions for workers, but also at importers and distributors in the Nordic countries, for failing to recognize and act upon such severe violations of workers’ basic rights.

The screening of the film will be followed by a debate.

The event will take place in English.

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Entry is free, but Afrika Kontakt will be collecting voluntary donations for an ongoing campaign in support of farm workers’ rights in the Western Cape. Donations will mainly help sustain the current strike by workers at Robertson Winery, which was initiated because of a stall in negotiations over pay and is now in its 10th week. Read more about the campaign at www.afrika.dk/endapartheidwages.