COSATU supports the #PharrellProtest
21 September 2015
The Congress of South African Trade Unions supports the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions [BDS] Campaign led by International Social Justice Activists today in Cape Town, Western Cape against Pharrell Williams due to his deliberate and un-informed decision to collaborate with Woolworths.
COSATU has continued to campaign that companies must discontinue doing business with Apartheid Israeli regime as an instrument to isolate the intransigent regime against ill-treatment meted against the people of Palestine.
COSATU agrees with BDS-South Africa that ‘International mobilisation, mass protests, global boycotts and specifically the cultural and sports boycott against the oppressive and racist Apartheid system in South Africa were used as ways to mobilise huge pressure on the Apartheid regime in the 1980s, largely accelerating our struggle towards freedom’.
And today, we cannot put wool in our eyes with injustice meted against the people of Palestine. COSATU reiterates its solidarity with the people of Palestine, who continue to suffer from political repression and apartheid from Israel.