Wine farm worker who was fired after talking to Swedish journalist getting a do-over of her case

When farm worker Claudine van Wyk sat down with a Swedish journalist in February 2019 for an interview on her working conditions on the wine farm, little did she know she would soon be out of a job for talking to the journalist and showing them her payslip. 

After she was fired, Van Wyk went to the Commission for Conciliation Mediation and Arbitration (CCMA), but it found against her. However, the Labour Court set the CCMA's decision aside, and ordered a redo by a different commissioner.  

Van Wyk lived on the Western Cape wine farm and was a general worker under contract for the harvest of 2019, earning R18 an hour. She posed with some of her colleagues, who had also been interviewed, for a picture with her payslip showing she earned R684.