It is all systems go for Cosatu leaders and their affiliates in their bid to force the government and private sectors to stop the freezing of wages, retrenchments and the sale of SOEs.
Johannesburg - It is all systems go for Cosatu leaders and their affiliates on Thursday in their bid to force the government and private sectors to stop the freezing of wages, retrenchments and the sale of state-owned companies.
In Gauteng, the marchers who will gather at Mary Fitzgerald Square will then go to the offices of Gauteng Premier David Makhura to hand over a memorandum. Later on they will move to the Minerals Council in the Joburg CBD to hand over a memorandum about the plight of mineworkers throughout the country.
NUM acting general secretary William Mabapa said they were issuing a call to all their members in mining, energy, construction and metal to join the strike. In Limpopo, five marches will be held in various regions of the province, including the Vhembe District. In Mpumalanga, Cosatu general secretary Bheki Ntshalintshali will lead a march to the provincial offices of the Department of Employment and Labour at the Nkangala region. Other leaders will lead marches at Ehlanzeni and Gert Sibande regions, which will be led by SA Democratic Teachers Union general secretary Mugwena Maluleke.
Similar protests will be held in the Northern Cape. NUM’s treasurer Mpho Phakedi and Mango Bongaza will lead a march to Premier Zamani Saul and the Human Rights Commissioner.
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