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THOUSANDS walked out across South Africa yesterday in a general strike against job losses and corruption, including at the highest levels of government.
The strike, called by union federation Cosatu four weeks earlier, drew large crowds in Johannesburg, Cape Town, Durban and Limpopo province’s capital Polokwane.
Cosatu said that “this strike is about sending a message to both government and the private sector that, as workers and citizens, we are tired of corruption.”
ALEX GORDON and LORRAINE DOUGLAS report from Havana, Cuba, where they represented the Communist Party of Britain at the 24th International Meeting of Communist and Workers’ Parties on August 7-8
ROGER MCKENZIE recalls the one-in-a-generation communist leader murdered at the dawn of a new South Africa 33 years ago last April 10
A past confrontation permanently shaped the methods the state will use to protect employers against any claims by their employees, writes MATT WRACK, but unions are readying to face the challenge
