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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 told AFP. The same labour shortage, he said, is looming in the vineyards. "It's time to cut off the grapes and there is no-one.......

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