Workers in bright South African Municipal Workers Union (SAMWU) t-shirts filled the streets of Pretoria on Thursday, waving placards demanding salaries, secure jobs and functioning municipalities. At the front walked the leaders of the union, flanked by the Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU) and the South African Communist Party (SACP), united behind a single message that the National Treasury’s austerity programme is pushing local …
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