Court grants Cosatu permission to protest

The Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) was granted permission to protest against e-tolling in Ekurhuleni by the high court in Johannesburg yesterday, it said. Cosatu brought an urgent application after it said the Ekurhuleni municipality and the police had denied its request to protest today. Last week, the Johannesburg Magistrate’s Court dismissed Cosatu’s application to protest on the city’s highways after the metro police denied it permission.