Unpicked crops, struggling factories: South African businesses reel from foreign worker exodus

AFP Zimbabwean farmworker Aaron Majatamhe was heading home at sunset after a shift in one of South Africa’s top fruit-producing regions, where bushes laden with bright unpicked citrus stood in rows. “I see a lot of farm owners who are crying now… people have to harvest those naartjies, but there is no one,” the 33-year-old […]