The COSATU protests and strikes
What do you feel about the COSATU ‘protests’ that have been planned from today onwards? They say that they are protesting spiralling food, fuel and electricity rates amongst other things. But is it meaningful?
I wonder if they understand that striking and ‘mass-action’ will only perpetuate many of these problems. It also means that many already cash-strapped people will be forced to participate and lose money due to the ‘no work, no pay’ rule.
I wonder why COSATU has not gone on strike over crime. Why have they not held mass-action against the governments corruption?
According to Cosatu provincial secretary Zet Luzipho, KZN will be brought to a complete standstill as far as economic activity is concerned. The problem is that who are they protesting to? No-one. This seems to be a general protest against no-one about the spiralling prices. How does that help? Why are they not protesting directly to the government?
To me this protest is an absolute waste of time and effort. Not only can the government do very little about these things (as we are told its linked to the falling dollar, rising oil price etc. etc.), but this incompetent government wouldn’t be able to do anything even if they wanted to!
So here we sit back and know that in the coming months, our country will be crippled further - all thanks to COSATU and their protest to no-one … sounds kind of like our government doesn’t it?
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July 9th, 2008 at 11:32 am
Spot on JS, spot on!!
Wat kan hulle bereik deur dit? Absoluut niks. Dit gaan net meer werkloosheid veroorsaak. Hierdie is ‘n mentaliteit wat moontlik nog gewerk het tydens die apartheid tydperk, want die regering het wel iets gedoen aan dit. Maar om dit nou te doen teenoor hierdie regering is nutteloos. Wie in hierdie regering gee ‘n flenter om vir die optogte? Voorheen “voel” hulle het hul iets bereik deur optogte. Die land is dan aan hulle gegee om te regeer. Dit werk nie met alles nie. Vreemd dat hulle nog nie paar tyres aan die brand gesteek het ook nie. Die bande wat brand is mos goed vir alles wat hulle pla.
Opsommend is hierdie optog gelykstaande aan die omkyk van ‘n worshond!!
July 9th, 2008 at 4:13 pm
This is a worldwide situation not just a South Africa thing. The powers that be have to get everyone on equal footing so we we will happily go along with their plans for a one world government. By the way the euro is probably going to be crashing in the near future. Got to work on bringing Europe down too. The US is very much on the way down.