SAFTU/AMCU/AoU: “We Demand a Say in Budget 2020” Issued by The Cry of the Xcluded The Cry of the Xcluded – a campaign launched by SAFTU, AMCU & the Assembly of the Unemployed – will be converging on Cape … Read More
Real Jobs Summit Programme: Monday, 24 Feb Time Activity 10:00 – 11:00 Initial gathering (setting the scene) 11:00 – 11:30 Walk to Parliament 11:30 – 12:30 Cry of the Excluded (speak-out) 12:30 – 14:00 Lunch 14:30 – 15:30 The … Read More
Press Statement Issued by the Cry of the Xcluded, 19 February 2020 Hundreds of people from all across South Africa are traveling in the Caravan of the Xcluded to converge in Cape Town for a Real Jobs Summit before … Read More
During his State of the Nation Address on the 13th of February President Cyril Ramaphosa Stated “two weeks from now, the Minister of Finance will outline a series of measures to reduce spending”. In effect, the president has promised an … Read More
With an unemployment rate of 29% measured by the conservative narrow definition of unemployment and 38,5% when discouraged workers are included, South Africa can be said to be facing an employment and socio-economic emergency. More than 10 million workers are … Read More
The Real Jobs Summit will be preceded by a caravan of buses and taxis that will come down to Cape Town bringing activists of the Assembly of the Unemployed to Cape Town. Between 200 and 300 activists from the affiliates … Read More
This op-ed by Rekang Jankie was first published in the Daily Maverick. In what promises to be an extremely significant development, the South African Federation of Trade Unions (SAFTU) and the Association of Mineworkers and Construction Union (AMCU) have come … Read More
This article by Greg Nicolson was published in the Daliy Maverick on 12 February 2020 Two of the biggest labour movements in the country, Saftu and Amcu, have joined forces with other working-class organisations to fight against government austerity … Read More
Cry of the Xcluded launch statement: Let South Africa Work! Jobs, Dignity and Services!!!! The unemployment crisis South Africa finds itself at a precipice. The economic malaise currently being experienced places the nation at a point of no … Read More