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The Citizen reports that Zwelinzima Vavi, general secretary of the SA Federation of Trade Unions (Saftu), has lashed out at the ANC for having worsened the poverty of the working class people since it came to power in 1994.
Vavi said on Saturday that Finance Minister Malusi Gigaba’s budget, together with the State of the Nation Address delivered by President Cyril Ramaphosa, were a reminder to the workers that they were on their own. “Following these two speeches, the class that exploits the working class is ecstatic. They can’t believe that what they were told will be a radical economic transformation has become the defence of the status quo. They have no worries whatsoever; they now know more than before that their mines, monopoly industries, the oceans and even the land will remain firmly in their hands,” Vavi said. He went on to comment: “They know that there are no major policy changes to even threaten the status quo… To them now that Jacob Zuma is no longer the president, things must return to ‘normal’.” But that normality was said to be that 14 million South Africans went to bed every night hungry and 55% of the population lived in poverty or on less than R1 000 a month.
- Read this report by Eric Naki in full at The Citizen
- See too, ‘Ramaphosa’s promise on job creation is rhetoric’, says Vavi, at SABC News
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