Central SA
Communities, workers mobilised for #NationalShutdown─── LUCKY NKUYANE 10:28 Thu, 18 Aug 2022
Workers and communities in Central South Africa, which includes the Free State, North West, and Northern Cape, are expected to join the picket lines when the much anticipated national shutdown strike takes place.
According to one of the country’s most prominent workers' trade unions, the Congress of South Africa Trade Union (Cosatu), communities and workers - particularly across the Free State, North West and Northern Cape - are being mobilised to join the strike. The national strike led by Cosatu next week on 24 August is against high fuel prices, the energy crisis, escalating unemployment rate, and poverty.
In a tweet, Cosatu says workers and communities in the Free State will march to the office of Premier Sisi Ntombela.
According to the national office of Cosatu, in the North West, Matlosana protesters will march to the Department of Minerals in Klerksdorp while Mahikeng workers and communities will march to the Provincial Legislature. Workers in the Northern Cape are set to gather in Kimberley.
