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In a historic show of unity, the country’s two largest labor federations, Cosatu and Saftu, which collectively represent some three million workers, will embark on a nationwide strike against corruption and unemployment.
Saftu General Secretary Zwelinzima Vavi.
JOHANNESBURG – The country’s unions have warned South Africans to expect services, including transportation, education and government departments, to be closed on Wednesday.
In a historic show of unity, the two largest labor federations in the country, the South African Congress of Trade Unions (Cosatu) and the South African Federation of Trade Unions (Saftu), which collectively represent some three million workers, will embark. in a national strike against corruption and unemployment.
While the protest action and the removal of Cosatu would take place only on Wednesday, Saftu leaders unveiled a massive action program that would last until the end of November.
Saftu, with which the country’s largest union Numsa is affiliated, plans to hold nightly vigils starting Tuesday night at key government institutions in each province and will join the marches and pickets to be held in major cities. from the country.
“We will do a human chain at Union Buildings to highlight all the demands we are making, but we will focus the demands on two of them. The first is that the government got out of a contract signed with the public sector, ”said Saftu’s general secretary, Zwelinzima Vavi.
Meanwhile, Cosatu warned against taking large numbers of workers onto the streets amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
Instead, the union federation encouraged workers to stay home during the day, while fewer people would protest on the streets and in caravans.
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