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June 1, 2009
NUMSA lays down its demands
Numsa Press Conference Statement, Numsa Head Office, Johannesburg, June 1 2009
A. Introduction
1. The National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (Numsa) has called this Press Conference in order to raise a number of issues, which we believe are of national importance. We at Numsa wish to note that there is now no dispute that South Africa is in a recession. We have a serious economic crisis on our hands, which now threatens to dangerously compound our inherited Apartheid crisis of mass unemployment, massive inequalities and deepening poverty among millions of South Africans.
2. While there has been some in this country, including among leaders of the Liberation Movement, who believed that the global crisis of capitalism would not seriously affect our country, it is now a fact that all key economic and social indicators point to the fact that South Africa has entered upon a recession whose magnitude and duration we are all yet to learn.
Posted by StaffWriter at June 1, 2009 10:02 AM
