South Africa's police have fired rubber bullets and tear gas to disperse striking farm workers in the wine-producing Western Cape region.
The workers barricaded roads and threw stones at police in De Doorns town, a top grape-producing area outside Cape Town, local media reported.
The strikers, who pick and pack fruit, are demanding a doubling of their daily wage to about $15 (£9).
South Africa has been hit by a series of wildcat strikes since last year.
Talks between trade union and employer representatives to avert a strike on the farms broke down earlier this week.
"We have been met with naked racism and white arrogance," said Nosey Pieterse, the general secretary of the Agricultural Workers Union.
South Africa's labour relations are fraught with racial tension, more than 18 years after white minority rule ended.
Most farm owners are white while their workers are black.
Police spokesman Lt-Col Andre Traut said about 50 protesters had been arrested in De Doorns, and the anti-riot force had been deployed to contain the unrest, the South African Press Association (Sapa) reports.
"We are taking action, and arrests are being effected," he is quoted as saying.
The farms were hit by a similar strike last year, when two workers were killed in clashes with police.
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