Cosatu demands urgent action for decent and sustainable employment

A GROUP of about 300 Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) members and supporters marched through the city centre to deliver a memorandum of grievances to the three spheres of government, calling for decent and sustainable employment.

- MANDILAKHE TSHWETE

The marchers gathered in Hanover Street before proceeding to the Provincial Legislature and later to the Civic Centre. Cosatu provincial secretary Malvern de Bruyn said: “We marched to the Provincial Legislature as well as to the Provincial Parliament, but this time around, we did it differently. We asked the Speaker of the National Parliament to come to the Legislature to collect the memorandum?

“The memorandum talked about the question of decent jobs for our people. It also addressed the issue of crime in the province. We referred to the issue of the Palestinian crisis and what we wanted our government to do. Then, we went to the City of Cape Town from there. We handed over the memorandum to the Mayor's Office, and that memorandum also talked about the question of high electricity tariffs, high water tariffs, the question of the anti-poor budget.”