Cosatu to stage nationwide march over ailing economy
The Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) is taking to the streets to protest the state of the country's economy.
The trade union federation says it wants government to address the rising cost of living, reduce interest rates and job losses and root out corruption.
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Provincial secretary Edwin Mkhize says the country's workers are taking strain and are not able to pay their bills and put food on the table with the little they are earning.
He says there will be marches across the country.
"We are saying, as Cosatu, we can't really fold our arms when we see that all these challenges facing our economy, at the end of the day, it is workers who suffer most.
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"Workers are losing salaries, hours and even companies are threatening to leave South Africa because of the state of our electricity. We can't really sit down under the circumstances."
The KwaZulu-Natal leg of the protest will be held in Durban on Thursday.
