Planned protest for Pensioners
By Tina George
11 February 2008
Tomorrow the Congress of South African Trade Unions will be taking senior citizens out on their monthly outing during which a planned protest against high food prices will be discussed.
“We will inform the seniors about our planned march to Parliament on the 21st February, a day before the minister of finance will be giving his budget speech,” says Provincial Administrator of Cosatu in the Western Cape, Elma Geswindt.
The demands that the pensioners will be putting forward to the minister is in relation to the increase in basic food materials and the low rate of pension fee.
“They believe that with the ongoing hike in food prices they cannot survive on what they are currently being provided by the minister,” says Geswindt.
The march will take place on the 21st February 2008 and all pensioners of the Western Cape will participate.
11 February 2008
Tomorrow the Congress of South African Trade Unions will be taking senior citizens out on their monthly outing during which a planned protest against high food prices will be discussed.
“We will inform the seniors about our planned march to Parliament on the 21st February, a day before the minister of finance will be giving his budget speech,” says Provincial Administrator of Cosatu in the Western Cape, Elma Geswindt.
The demands that the pensioners will be putting forward to the minister is in relation to the increase in basic food materials and the low rate of pension fee.
“They believe that with the ongoing hike in food prices they cannot survive on what they are currently being provided by the minister,” says Geswindt.
The march will take place on the 21st February 2008 and all pensioners of the Western Cape will participate.
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