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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Tesco's fruit pickers in South Africa

Tesco fruit farms: Farm workers walk home from work at a Ceres fruit farm in South Africa.
Ceres: Workers walk home from a fruit farm that supplies Tesco Photograph: Araminta de Clermont
Tesco fruit farms: Casual workers sit in the orchards while they wait for bad weather to pass
Wellington: Casual workers try to keep warm in an orchard Photograph: Araminta de Clermont
Tesco fruit farms: Workers' children at a fruit farm in Ceres in South Africa
Ceres: Farm workers' children Photograph: Araminta de Clermont
Tesco fruit farms: Casual workers sit by a fire while they wait for the bad weather to pass
Wellington: Casual workers keep warm by a small fire, while they wait for bad weather to pass Photograph: Araminta de Clermont
Tesco fruit farms: Frieda Boesak wearing a Women on Farms Project T shirt
Frieda Boesak wearing a Women on Farms Project T-shirt Photograph: Araminta de Clermont
Tesco fruit farms: Children in a farm workers' creche at a Ceres fruit farm in South Africa.
Ceres: Children in a farm workers' creche Photograph: Araminta de Clermont
Tesco fruit farms: Dianna Hlati, who struggles to make ends meet at a Wellington fruit farm
Wellington: Dianna Hlati, who says she struggles to make ends meet on her pay from a Tesco supplier Photograph: Araminta de Clermont
Tesco fruit farms: Kitty de Kock, who struggles to make ends meet, outside worker housing
Wellington: Kitty de Kock outside worker housing on a farm Photograph: Araminta de Clermont
Tesco fruit farms: A disabled woman stands in farm workers' accommodation at Ceres fruit farm
Ceres: A disabled woman stands in workers' accommodation on a farm where her husband works Photograph: Araminta de Clermont
Tesco fruit farms: Gertruida Baartman from the Ceres area, South Africa
Ceres: Gertruida Baartman is passed by a fruit truck Photograph: Araminta de Clermont
Tesco fruit farms: Sanna Louw (check) who struggles to make ends meet as a fruit farm worker.
Sanna Louw, who says she cannot feed her family properly as a fruit farm worker Photograph: Araminta de Clermont
Tesco fruit farms: Wendy Pekeur, of Sikhula Sonke holds a meeting in a farm workers' hall
Ceres: Wendy Pekeur, general secretary of the women's trade union Sikhula Sonke, holds a meeting in a farm workers' hall Photograph: Araminta de Clermont
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