BusinessLive reports that Communication Workers Union (CWU) general secretary Aubrey Tshabalala said on Friday that workers in the communications sector faced widespread retrenchments as a result of state capture  

He said the effects of state capture were being felt particularly at the SA Broadcasting Corporation (SABC)‚ where workers were not getting salary increases‚ and at television news channel Afro Worldview (formerly ANN7)‚ where there would be job losses as a result of the likely closure of the former Gupta-owned channel.  Tshabalala made these comments during the SA Communist Party’s (SACP’s) march to the state capture commission of inquiry in Parktown‚ Johannesburg‚ to show support for the commission’s work.  The commission began its work last Monday.  SACP first deputy general secretary‚ Solly Mapaila‚ said the party was at the commission to give its full support.  "No one will run away from corruption in this country and we want to retrieve billions stolen as a result of state capture‚" Mapaila said.  SACP Gauteng secretary Jacob Mamabolo read out a memorandum and the secretary of the commission, Khotso de Wee, was on hand to receive it.

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