MAY DAY RALLY: Ramaphosa calls for unity at Durban Workers’ Day rally By Aisha Abdool Karim and Sandisiwe Shoba
Cyril Ramaphosa, as ANC president, called for unity in KwaZulu-Natal, during a rally in the province.In forging unity and renewal we will challenge all practices that promote factionalism and we will tackle all tendencies that create division,” said ANC President Cyril Ramaphosa at the national Workers’ Day rally in KwaZulu-Natal.We will need comrades to ensure that as we promote unity within our ranks we remain focused on what needs to be done to ensure that unity remains solid.
The South African Federation of Trade Unions held its own march in Durban on Wednesday, 1 May, to demand better working conditions. This followed a shutdown of the city centre by eThekwini municipality workers the previous day, protesting against a salary increase given to MK veterans in the Water and Sanitation department.
While Ramaphosa acknowledged that workers were responsible for the economic growth of the country, he also said that historically the working class had been denied their “share of the riches of this country”.On this day, it’s your day to remind society that it is from your hands that millions of our people receive their daily bread and it is from the sweat of your brow that the economy of our country turns.
A memorandum of demands was handed to Athlone police station commander Major-General Mpumelelo Manci, who received and signed the document on behalf of the SAPS.
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