Cosatu is embarking on a nationwide strike on Monday. The federation wants to highlight the unemployment and economic crisis. Pickets will be held at various venues.
They include the Johannesburg Stock Exchange, the Reserve Bank and Parliament. The strike action by coincides with the International Day of Decent Work.
Affiliated unions, including Sactwu and Saccawu, are expected to join the strike.
Marches are expected across South Africa on Monday as workers unite for a National Day of Action led by the Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu).
The trade union federation said that the mass demonstrations, coinciding with World Day of Decent Work, were in response to the country’s deepening economic crisis, with joblessness, poverty, and inequality at the forefront of worker’s grievances.
Cosatu KwaZulu-Natal provincial secretary Edwin Mkhize emphasised that they were prepared for the march.
“We are ready for the march. We have invited people who will collect the memorandum, and we have mobilised the workers,” said Mkhize.
“We expect this march to be very big.
The only challenge that we are facing is that the transport [for workers] that we have is not enough. We are receiving calls from all corners of the province; workers want to come to the march but there is not enough transport.”
To accommodate those who cannot join in the main demonstrations, Mkhize encouraged alternative action.
