Morning Star.png Thousands March in Durban The Morning Star, London, 25 April 2016 Thousands of South African trade unionists and communists marched through the Indian Ocean port city of Durban on Saturday. Nearly 10,000 gathered to call for a minimum wage, social security, food-price subsidies, publicly funded healthcare, a ban on employment agencies, the repeal of new laws regulating workplace pensions and the transformation of the banking sector to support development. South African Communist Party general secretary Blade Nzimande accused the banks of an "investment strike" against the economy. He and trade union federation COSATU president Sdumo Dlamini reaffirmed their support for the African National Congress in upcoming local elections. Former COSATU general secretary Zwelinzima Vavi told expelled metalworkers' union NUMSA's conference at the weekend that mining union AMCU may join his proposed rival union federation. A newspaper also reported that Mr Vavi had been in talks with the main opposition Democratic Alliance to form a coalition with his embryonic United Front party on Port Elizabeth's council. From: http://www.morningstaronline.co.uk/a-de80-South-Africa-Thousands-march-in-Du rban-for-better-conditions#.Vx2xHfl9600 -- -- You are subscribed. This footer can help you. Please POST your comments to [email protected] or reply to this message. You can visit the group WEB SITE at http://groups.google.com/group/yclsa-eom-forum for different delivery options, pages, files and membership. To UNSUBSCRIBE, please email [email protected] . You don't have to put anything in the "Subject:" field. You don't have to put anything in the message part. All you have to do is to send an e-mail to this address (repeat): [email protected] . --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "YCLSA Discussion Forum" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
