Richards+Bay+protests,+arrest+of+90+job+seekers



=Richards Bay protests=

The Congress of South African Trade Unions deplores the arrest of 90 job seekers at Richards Bay Minerals and the use of rubber bullets and pepper spray against demonstrators. These tactics are a return to the methods of the apartheid police state and are totally unacceptable.

The anger of these unemployed workers vindicates COSATU’s concern that the unemployment crisis is becoming a national emergency and that the anger of the unemployed and poor is bubbling to the surface. COSATU appeals to all these, and other unemployed workers to channel their anger positively by swelling the ranks of the marches taking place against job losses on Monday 27 June, and join the growing numbers who are determined to get unemployment down and stop any more job losses.

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

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: paul@cosatu.org.za**