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IOL News reports that the National Union of Metalworkers of SA (Numsa) will be joining Friday’s National Shutdown as anger mounts over escalating levels of gender-based violence, femicide and attacks on children.
The union’s National Gender Structure confirmed it would lead a demonstration in Bloemfontein on Friday (21 November), backed by Numsa members from the Northern Cape and Free State. Several Saftu affiliates, including Taswu and Nupsaw, are also expected to participate. The action comes amid what Numsa leaders describe as a “national emergency”.
Civil society group Women for Change has called on women in SA to withdraw from the economy for one day on Friday to protest against gender-based violence ahead of the G20 summit. Numsa’s Puleng Phaka said the shutdown was aimed at pressuring the government to move faster and more decisively over gender-based violence and femicide (GBVF). The Bloemfontein protest is scheduled to begin at Hoffman Square at 11:00 on Friday. The union has encouraged its members across the country to mobilise or join local demonstrations where possible.
- Read the full original of the report in the above regard by Yasmine Jacobs at IOL News
- Read too, Women for Change calls for national shutdown over GBV ahead of G20 Summit, at Daily Maverick
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