COSATU+Mobilising+and+Media+alert+for+June+18,+2005

=COSATU Mobilising and Media alert=

Issued June 15th, 2005


 * 1. Eastern Cape Shop Stewards Council**

The media are invited to attend the last of COSATU’s Provincial Shop Steward Council meetings – in the Eastern Cape. It will be addressed by COSATU General Secretary, Zwelinzima Vavi.

DATE: Saturday 18 June TIME: 11h00 VENUE: Orient Theatre, East London

The meeting will follow picketing at shops in East London, from 10h00 to 11h00, as part of the programme of mass action (see below)


 * 2. COSATU Mass action kicks off**

COSATU’s campaign of mass action against job losses begins this Saturday, 18 June. The media are welcome to attend. The action is taking the form of mass picketing at shopping malls throughout the country, stating at 10h00, as follows:

//Gauteng// Southgate Mall Germiston - Golden Walk Johannesburg City Edgars and Woolworths Tswane - Mainlane

//Limpopo// Polokwane – Pick’n Pay Mall Mokopane - Crossing Mall Tzaneen - Shoprite Mall Thoyandou - Venda Plaza Makhado - OK Centres Belabela – Pick’n Pay Centre

//North West// Rustenburg Mall Mafikeng - Mega City Potchefstroom - River Walk Mall

//Mpumalanga // Ermelo Mall - Ermelo Checkers Hyper & Pick’n Pay Malls - Secunda KwaMhlangu & KwaGafontein Complex - KwaMlangu Edgars & Pick ‘n Pay Compex - Witbank Blue Haze Shoping Centre - Hazeyview Nelspruit Plaza & Emnotweni Complex - Nelspruit Shoprite Jan Van Riebeck Street - Middelburg

//Western Cape// Cavendish Square - Claremont Century City - Milnerton Promenade - Mitchelsplain Waterfront - Cape Town Somerset Mall - Somerset West Tyger Valley Centre - Tyger Valley

//KwaZulu Natal// Pick n Pay - North Beach Centre Baby City, Game, TruWorths, Shoprite & Pick ‘n Pay - Pavillion, Westville Pick ‘n Pay & Game - SANLAM Centre Rhino Cash & Carry - Kwamlazi Shoprite - Malvern Shopping Centre Super Spar - Westville Centre

//Northern Cape// Colesburg - Shoping centre mall

//Free State// Bloemfontein - Mimosa Mall, Hyperama (Fauna) Hypermarket Pick 'n Pay (Fichartpark) Sasolburg - Pick 'n Pay, Shoprite Bethlehem - Pick 'n Pay, Shoprite Ficksburg - Shoprite, Friendly, Delash Supermaket, Markhams, Foschini & Textile industries Wesseslbron - Spar, Pepstore

//Eastern Cape// E. London – Edgars, Foschini, Jet, Sales House & Mr Price in Oxford Street Followed by Shop Stewards Council meeting at 11h00 at the Orient Theatre, addressed by COSATU General Secretary, Zwelinzima Vavi.


 * Contacts:**

Paul Notyhawa (Spokesperson) Congress of South African Trade Unions 1-5 Leyds Cnr Biccard Streets Braamfontein, 2017

P.O.Box 1019 Johannesburg, 2000 South Africa

Cell: 082 491 1591 Tel: +27 11 339-4911/24 Fax: +27 11 339-5080/6940 E-Mail: patrick@cosatu.org.za