SAFTU to march against minimum wage proposal and the Cape Town water crisis
11 April 2018
The South African Federation of Trade Unions (SAFTU) will march to Parliament in Cape Town on Thursday to protest against the proposed national minimum wage and water issues in the province.
The federation has dismissed the proposed R20 an hour or R3 500 a month minimum wage as "entrenchment of the apartheid wage structure".
"SAFTU insists that the national minimum wage will do nothing except keep millions of workers trapped in poverty and slave wages," said provincial secretary André Adams during a media briefing in Bellville, Cape Town.
"Whereas the idea of a national minimum wage is a hard-won victory of workers' struggle and will be celebrated by many workers scandalously earning below these figures – the national minimum wage is a legislative attempt to pour cold water on the militant struggles of the immortal mineworkers who were massacred for demanding a R12 500," said Adams.