President has committed his administration to improving the lives of working people after the May 8 elections, saying that it wants to improve on the gains made through the creation of a national minimum wage.
President Cyril Rampahosa has committed his administration to improve the lives of working people after the May 8 elections, saying that it wanted to improve on the gains made through the creation of a national minimum wage.
He said many workers around the world did not have the basket of rights that South African workers enjoy, with had come during the past 25 years of ANC government. “Our country rests on your shoulders.” The ANC would continue to make sure that the resolutions of the ANC conference in December 2017 on expropriation of land without compensation took place, he said.
These included the extension of the Unemployment Insurance Fund to workers who had previously been denied this support under apartheid, the creation of progressive labour relation legislation and the recent passing of a national minimum wage. Speaking later SACP secretary-general Blade Nzimande also defended advances made under the ANC, saying that government had electrified 7-million households between 1994 and 2014.
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