Day of action was successful: COSATU

SABC News writes that the Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) says its day of action to highlight labour and socio-economic issues on Monday was successful. Members of unions affiliated to Cosatu across the country marched to various government offices and handed over memoranda to officials. The memoranda contain a demand for action on joblessness, poverty, and inequality which characterise what the labour federation calls South Africa’s crippling economic crisis.

Cosatu’s General-Secretary Solly Phetoe says, “From all the nine provinces, we were successful, we have been receiving some reports. We think that our action was successful, even though not all workers came out, but we can say it was a successful action.” Phetoe says, “It was not a national shutdown, because when you do a national shutdown, it means there’s total stay away- this was not a total stay away, it was a strike and marches in terms of the socio-economic crisis that we are facing.”

by Bontle Motsoatsoe

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