Bheki Ntshalintshali, the general secretary of COSATU, has encouraged workers in all sectors of the South African economy to participate in this week’s Cosatu national strike on Wednesday, August 24.
We examine the highways, locations, and areas of the Western Cape that will be impacted by the impending prospect of a national shutdown on Wednesday.
The Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU) has provided information on the strike’s timings and assembly locations.
COSATU posted a series of photographs on Twitter detailing the meeting locations for people taking part in the nationwide strike. On August 24, 2022, everyone is supposed to gather at 9:00.
Western Cape province, according to COSATU, opted to take part in a picket in order to demand more “functional, timely, accessible, economical, and integrated public transit.” The PRASA Metro-rail is their intended goal.
Which Western Cape highways, locations, and areas will be impacted by the government shutdown? Twitter/COSATU image
From 9:00, the participants will gather at Hanover Street.
The procession will leave Hanover at 10:00 and go left into Tenant Street, then right onto Christiaan Barnard Street, then left onto Hertzog Boulevard before congregating at the Red Knot outside the Civic Center to deliver a message.
In order to deliver a memo to the Department of Mineral Resources and Energy, the protesters will return to Hertzog Boulevard, turn left onto Hertzog Boulevard, turn right onto Adderley Street, and then turn right again onto Riebeeck Street. They will congregate on Riebeeck Street between Lower Burg and Long Street.
They will return to Riebeeck Street and turn right into Adderley Street and then into Wale Street to deliver a memo to the provincial legislature; they will then turn left into Bureau/Spin Street and then right into Plein Street to deliver a memo outside the national parliament; and they will return to Roeland Street and turn left into Buitenkant Street and then right into Darling Street to return to the Hanover parking lot.
By 15:30, the participants will have split up.
The countrywide strike on August 24 is in protest of load shedding, increasing gasoline prices, and living expenses.
The continuing load shedding, rising gasoline costs, and rising food prices are the causes of the nationwide strike,
a message from Cosatu said.
Cosatu organized a nationwide strike in October of last year due to similar issues.
The federation also organized a march earlier this month in Cape Town to protest the price of public transportation.