Cosatu plans huge power protest
11/06/2008 12:22  - (SA)  

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Johannesburg - Cosatu said on Wednesday it would launch mass action on July 2, culminating with a national stayway towards the end of the month, to protest job losses linked to an electricity crisis.

The country has suffered electricity shortages since the start of the year as power utility Eskom struggles to generate enough of the energy source to meet demand.

"The action is...in response to the danger of retrenchments in the mining sector and elsewhere due to Eskom's decision of to reduce electricity supply to industry and its threat to oppose any new major construction initiatives," Cosatu said in a statement.

- Reuters

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