"Elderly farm workers face eviction", 22 Nov 2016

Six elderly people who have worked for over 35 years on Die Erf farm in Grabouw, are among eight former workers facing eviction. The apple export farm is 65km outside Cape Town...Aged between 50 and 67, the former employees started work when they were 15 years old. They performed various duties – packing, quality control, sorting, pruning and cleaning. They say they were dismissed with nothing, and told to go and claim social grants...Yolandi Dippenaar, Die Erf farm’s attorney stated:...“It appears that the employees are under the impression that they would be entitled to some sort of severance pay, once they are dismissed, which is not the case in dismissals based on misconduct or incapacity. Severance pay is only payable in cases of retrenchment, as determined by labour legislation.”...