Sunday, January 20, 2008

Cosatu protests against bread price increase

By Tina George
20 January 2008

The Congress of South African Trade Unions will be having a protest at Parliament on Sunday along with a number of other organisations against the bread price increase.

The union is demanding that governments set the price of bread at an affordable level and minimise the sale of it to the poorer communities.

“The cost should be no more than R4,50 a loaf of bread as it costs less than R4,00 to produce a loaf of bread,” says Cosatu spokesperson, Tony Erenreich.

A memorandum will be handed over to the government and Tiger Brands who Cosatu feels has been responsible for the increase in the bread price.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

isnt it enough that we were cheated out of our money for so many years now they want to increase the bread price!!! its totally ridiculous. somebody do something one day we gona have to start buying per slice!

Anonymous said...

Like we pay per cigarette!!!

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