Press Statement dated 19 April 2018
Hundreds of workers affiliated to the Federation of Unions of South Africa (FEDUSA)’s and its public sector unions; the Health & Other Services Personnel Trade Union of South Africa (HOSPERSA), the Public Servants Association of South Africa (PSA), the South African Abet Educators Union (SAAEU), the Suid-Afrikaanse Onderwysersunie (SAOU), the South African Parastatal and Tertiary Institutions Union (SAPTU), the United National Public Service Association of S. A. & Allied Workers Union (UNIPSAWU) and the National Professional Teachers’ Organisation of South Africa (Naptosa); and other concerned stakeholders will be picketing at the Steinhoff AGM in Cape Town tomorrow morning to demand the immediate resignation of the Audit Committee Chair Steve Booysen and the appointment of a new Board following last year’s corporate scandal that saw 95 percent wiped off its share value made up mostly of public servants pensions.
A Media Conference to be addressed by FEDUSA General Secretary Dennis George will be held in the morning before the start of the Steinhoff AGM at the PSA in Cape Town Offices to furnish journalists with the full details of the campaign as detailed below:
Date: 20 April 2018
Venue: PSA Cape Town Offices, 6th Floor, 80 Strand Street, Corner Strand and Bree Street, Cape Town CBD, 8001
Time: 10:00 AM
Issued by Dennis George, General Secretary, Federation of Unions of SA (Fedusa)