Workers ‘have little to celebrate’ on Human Rights Day – Numsa
The National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (Numsa) say the rights of workers are often forgotten when the issue of human rights is raised in South Africa.
The National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (Numsa)
say the rights of workers are often forgotten when the issue of human rights is
raised in South Africa.
The country will commemorate Human Rights Day on Monday.
The commemoration is linked with 21 March 1960, and the events of Sharpeville.
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On that day 69 people died and 180 were wounded when police
fired on a peaceful crowd that had gathered in protest against the Pass laws.
Numsa spokesperson Mbuso Ngubane says workers have little to celebrate.
"At what point do we really celebrate and enjoy the freedom of the democracy we have today? It is clear that the capitalists of this world will have more to celebrate as compared to the sections of the working class.
“A majority of the people continues to be living in squalor, their experience with deepening poverty level where we are experiencing the rise of inequality in communities and the massive unemployment its a clear signal that capitalism has failed humanity not only in this country but in the world.”
