The working class in South Africa is under siege from soaring living costs and rising unemployment, prompting Cosatu to organise a national protest on 19 June. This protest aims to urge the government and private sector to take immediate action to alleviate the burden on workers.
The working class is under siege from the increasingly painful costs of living, rising unemployment and the subsequent crises of poverty, inequality, crime, corruption and overstretched public services.
The Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) will be holding a national protest against the rising costs of living on Friday 19 June to send a clear message to government and the private sector that workers can no longer cope and action must be taken before it is too late.
South Africa’s history of centuries of institutional discrimination and disempowerment under colonial and apartheid rule are well known and the scars of poverty and inequality they engineered remain painfully etched across the nation.
We appreciate that great strides have been made on many fronts since 1994 under government led by the African National Congress, from investing 60% of the Budget into uplifting working-class communities to opening up the economy to the 90% once denied access to their race, gender or disability.
