COSATU campaigns to defend Expropriation Act – to ensure it benefits ‘the dispossessed black majority’

SOUTH Africa’s largest trade union federation, the Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU), is to launch a campaign in defence of the Expropriation Act to ensure land reform that benefits ‘the dispossessed black majority’. It also called for urgent stabilisation of state-owned companies including Transnet, Metro Rail, the South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC), Denel and the Post Office. Meanwhile, The Judiciary Staff Union of Nigeria, JUSUN, Osun State chapter has embarked on a strike action. ‘This unfortunate lack of response suggests a disturbing disregard for the rule of law and industrial harmony within the Osun State Judiciary. The two staff members from the Malian embassy and consulate in Paris have been declared persona non grata, France’s foreign ministry added, while Mali declared five French embassy staff members persona non grata.