OPINION | Unemployed people of South Africa cannot breathe - The national minimum wage policy is suffocating jobless people
in South Africa is a crisis; more than 15 million people are jobless. Yes, unemployed people in South Africa cannot breathe; the suffocation is unbearable. They cannot breathe because of the draconian labour policies that unfairly discriminate against them.
We are pleading with those who are in a position of authority to at least protect the constitutional rights of the unemployed people. We want to work and earn something to take home to our families. Even a very low wage will help to restore the dignity of those who are now hopeless. We are law-abiding citizens and the support we require is to be assisted to achieve our objective, which is that unemployed people must be exempted from the labour policies and for that to be achieved a job seekers exemption certificate must be introduced.
We are rejected by political parties who are represented in parliament, and they expect us to vote for them. This shows that unemployed people are on their own. We cannot breathe and the laws of the country are stacked against us. We cannot breathe because of those whom we trusted. How long must the unemployed endure the suffocation, what more can we do to get the attention of those in authority? The only weapon in the hands of the unemployed is the numbers. We will have to mobilise all unemployed people. We call on all those who care about the unemployed to help us with all resources at their disposal to get all unemployed people, if possible, to work.
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