Cosatu welcomes Zuma's speech
2013-02-15 18:05
Johannesburg – Cosatu on Friday welcomed President Jacob
Zuma's State of the Nation speech, but said more needs to be done to fight
corruption.
"There is some encouraging news on the war against
corruption, with the report that the Special Investigating Unit has increased
its capacity; more still needs to be done, however," it said in a
statement.
The trade union federation said it was pleased with
"the assurance" by Zuma that by saying education was an essential
service "we are not taking away the constitutional rights of teachers as
workers, such as the right to strike".
Government's measures to tackle the crisis of youth
unemployment were also welcomed.
"The federation is, however, disappointed that the speech
did not adequately confront the problems of poverty and inequality, which,
together with unemployment, constitute the triple economic crisis facing the
country."
Cosatu was disappointed Zuma based "so much of his
future programmes" on the National Development Plan.
- SAPA
