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Al Jazeera
Al Jazeera
Politics
Nkateko Mabasa

‘People are dying’: South Africa workers protest economic woes

Members of the Congress of South African Trade Unions, South Africa's biggest trade union group, and other labour unions, take part in a nationwide protest against the high cost of living and rising unemployment, in Cape Town, South Africa, July 6, 2023 [Esa Alexander/Reuters]

Johannesburg, South Africa – Hundreds of members of the Congress of South African Trade Union (COSATU), the country’s largest labour union, gathered at its head office in the commercial capital Johannesburg on Thursday to demand interest rate cuts, electricity reforms, and job additions.

The union also mobilised workers across South Africa’s nine provinces and major urban centres, such as Cape Town, Durban, Kimberly, Mafikeng and Rustenburg, to present a common front nationwide.

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