Stinging attack on Ramaphosa over 'slave wages'
22 November 2016
Johannesburg – Metalworkers union Numsa on Tuesday criticised Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa for trying to legislate what it calls "slave wages for blacks and Africans”.
The proposed R3 500 minimum wage Ramaphosa announced at the National Economic Development and Labour Council (Nedlac) on Sunday was not a living wage, general secretary Irvin Jim said in a statement.
“Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa is extremely dangerous, continually gunning for the blood of the working class and ready to evaporate the dream of a living national minimum wage.”
Ramaphosa led the Nedlac negotiations for the national minimum wage.