Few turn up for COSATU protest march
Only about 100 workers, many of them wearing red t-shirts, were gathered at the Pieter Rose Park in Johannesburg Wednesday morning ahead of the Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) multi-purpose march, which was expected to draw thousands.
The march is a protest against retrenchments in the mining and steel sectors, e-tolls, the high rate of unemployment and joblessness.
Cosatu members will later march to Gauteng Premier David Makhura’s office, the Department of Labour, the Chambers of Commerce, Chambers of Business and Telkom.