WC pledges 600 000 jobs by 2035 amid Cosatu march

THE Western Cape government has committed to creating more than half a million jobs by 2035 in response to the Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) marchers.

- MANDILAKHE TSHWETE

COSATU members marched through the streets of Cape Town yesterday to observe the International Day for Decent Work.

(I ARMAND HOUGH Independent Newspapers)

Union members marched through the Cape Town city centre to deliver a memorandum of grievances to the three spheres of government.

The group of about 300 people gathered in Hanover Street before proceeding to the Provincial Legislature and later to the Civic Centre.

Cosatu provincial secretary Malvern de Bruyn said the demonstration aimed to highlight the urgent need for decent and sustainable employment.

“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,” said De Bruyn.