16 June 2015
The Congress of the South African Trade Unions
applauds the young people , who led organisation of meetings prior to the day
and also on the day as it changed the South African political landscape in the
continent and globally.
Acting COSATU national spokesperson Norman Mampane
said, COSATU has urged that, whilst government has introduced the quintile
system in provision of resources.
We have not succeeded to eradicate costs in education
provisions. Mampane said COSATU joins millions of South Africans to continue to
remember the martyrs of 1976, young people, man and woman who stood against the
introduction of Afrikaans as a medium of instruction.
“COSATU calls for all young people of school going
age to go to school in order to ensure that the country is led by skilled
people, to ensure that we are able to take industrialisation to greater heights”
South Africa, we facing three major challenges of
poverty, unemployment and inequality, Mampane added.
Meanwhile, the National Union of Mineworkers says,
South Africans and the world must pay a fitting tribute to the fearless heroes
and martyrs who fought the mighty evil apartheid regime.
Acting NUM national spokesperson Livhuwani Mammburu
says, as South Africans, we can see today that their efforts were not in vain.
Mammburu said the National Union of Mineworkers
call for efforts of job creation for young people to be intensified as a key
commemoration to June 16.
Mammburu said, companies must commit in providing
training and skills development for young people in the mining, energy and
construction centres where the NUM is organising.
This will help reduce the high rate of unemployment
in South Africa. We also see the June 16 commemoration as historic, Mammburu
added.
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