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COSATU calls for national strike against privatisation

    JOHANNESBURG

    South Africa’s largest trade union, the Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU), announced on Thursday a two-day national strike in protest against the government’s plan to privatise state-owned assets, news reports said. “We will hold a national stayaway on 29 and 30 August,” COSATU general-secretary Zwelinzima Vavi told a news conference. He said the 1.8 million-strong union would meet other organisations to plan a more detailed campaign to stop the government’s sell off of stakes in the state’s telecommunications, airline, rail, power and arms companies.

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