DE DOORNS, South Africa (Reuters) - South African police fired rubber bullets to disperse hundreds of striking farm workers in the grape-growing Western Cape on Wednesday, the first clashes of a year that looked set to be dominated by fractious labour relations.
On the main highway through the region 100 km (60 miles) east of Cape Town, strikers set up barricades of burning tyres and pelted passing vehicles with stones, according to a Reuters reporter.
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