Cosatu Pickets At North West Legislature Ahead Of Budget Speech

The Congress of South African Trade Unions COSATU in the North West is leading a picket today at the provincial legislature, against austerity measures. This protest comes ahead of the provincial governments budget speech.

The union is urging the government to address issues relating to service delivery and the high unemployment rate in the province.

COSATU National spokesperson Zanele Sabela says, We all know of the problems that are in the North West. Infrastructure there is falling apart, the roads are in a terrible state, the schools themselves are falling apart. And you have situations where a particular municipality like Madibeng will be sending back the budget at the end of the year when quite frankly, theres so many problems and they are just actually not being addressed. And so, its those issues and in that province particularly, unemployment is so high. unemployment there is like sitting at 52.8 percent. And so, its all about how the budget is being used.

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