The Labour Committee oversight visit to the fishing industry of the Western Cape was indeed controversial. Company bosses seemed shocked at the accusations leveled at them and the behaviour of the committee. Shop stewards also were often castigated without opportunities to respond. Surely there is a better, more constructive way to engage with business and labour than this shock troupe type approach. It is difficult to engage people when emotions are whipped up and then the parliamentary bus soon departs, leaving unions and company bosses left to clean up the mess.  The DA would certainly do this differently. The Newspaper extract below gives one journalist's view of the visit.