Support strike – EFF

The Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) yesterday urged South Africans to down tools and support the national strike against the R20 per hour minimum wage.

“Government has already imposed VAT, sugar tax, a fuel levy and all manner of taxes to resolve an economic crisis that the workers did not create,” the EFF said.

“The very same government proposes that the national minimum wage for all workers should be R20 per hour, even less than the minimum living wage that was in the findings of research from the University of Cape Town in 2014.”

The party said the proposed minimum wage would further entrench poverty and cause the present inequalities to remain a permanent feature of the country.

This was despite the ANC “claiming it advocates for radical economic transformation”, the EFF added. –