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South African police fired rubber bullets at striking farm workers who set up barricades and threw stones on Wednesday in a province whose vineyards are vital to the wine industry. At least 50 demonstrators were arrested, the authorities said. Labor unrest has spread across various sectors of the economy in the past year, from mining to trucking, underscoring the growing frustration with vast inequalities in wealth and the slow pace of economic progress for millions of poor people. Some protests turned violent, culminating in the shooting deaths of several dozen miners by the police at a platinum mine. The protests among farm workers took place in several areas of Western Cape Province, where similar protests last year also turned violent. South African police fired rubber bullets at striking farmworkers who set up barricades and threw stones on Wednesday in a province whose vineyards are vital to the wine industry. At least 50 demonstrators were arrested, the authorities said. Labor unrest has spread across various sectors of the economy in the past year, from mining to trucking, underscoring the growing frustration with vast inequalities in wealth and the slow pace of economic progress for millions of poor people. Some protests turned violent, culminating in the shooting deaths of several dozen miners by the police at a platinum mine. The protests among farmworkers took place in several areas of Western Cape Province, where similar protests last year also turned violent.