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=Joburg roads closed for strike=

Finance24, June 26 2005 06:59:03:693PM
Johannesburg - Some roads in central Johannesburg will be closed between 11:00 and 16:00 on Monday as 60 000 people are expected to march in a one-day strike, metro police said.

The march is part of the Congress of SA Trade Unions' (Cosatu) protest strike against unemployment and poverty.

Johannesburg metro police spokesperson chief superintendent Wayne Minnaar said the crowd will gather at Beyers Naude square.

Three memoranda are to be handed over at different points on the march.

"The crowd will leave Beyers Naude Square and walk down Market street, left into Rissik street, turning right into Wolmarans street and walk right into King George street where they will hand over a memorandum at the old railway building."

Minnaar said the crowd is then expected to march down Wolmarans street to Biccard street.

They will turn left, cross the Queen Elizabeth bridge and march down Simmonds street and turn right into Pritchard street and walk on to Diagonal street, handing over a second memorandum at the old Johannesburg Stock Exchange building.

"From there the crowd will march down Diagonal street, walking left into Marshall street and walk up to the Chamber of Mines where they will hand over a third memorandum."

They will then march up Sauer street, turning right into Market street and end the march at Beyers Naude square.

Minnaar said there would be a strong police presence at the march.

Cosatu has called on all South Africans, employed or not, unionised or not, to strike on Monday to protest unemployment, "casualisation" and racism in the workplace.


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