Assembly of the Unemployed to stage protest outside Parly during Budget Speech
Members of the Assembly of the Unemployed have arrived in Cape Town ahead of Finance Minister Tito Mboweni’s Budget Speech on Wednesday. The activists, who left Mpumalanga on Friday, say they will attend the Real Job Summit on Monday and on Tuesday before holding a mass protest in front of Parliament on budget day.
South Africa’s official unemployment rate remained unchanged at 29,1% in Q4:2019 compared to Q3:2019.
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They are demanding jobs and improved basic services from government.
The group’s Spokesperson Khokhomo Motsi says unemployment is really bad in South Africa.
“Our issues are unemployment, which is really a bad situation in our country where we have 11 million people unemployed according to the organic statistics that we have, which is atomic bomb because immediately when it explodes, it will explode in the face of the rich.”
The number of unemployed people in South Africa increased from 4,4 million in Q4:2009 to 6,7 million in Q4:2019.
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Source: SABC News (sabcnews.com)