You gotta love this. Cosatu (SA's largest trade union movement) have of late been highly vocal in their outcry against all the jobs being lost in South Africa as a result of what they say is the flooding of our markets with cheap Chinese imports. A minor protest broke out yesterday when Cosatu members attending a mass rally to celebrate the union's 20th anniversary, discovered that, well, the free t-shirts they were being given were noneother than cheap Chinese imports.
"The 20th anniversary celebrations of the Congress of South African Trade Unions became chaotic yesterday when members of the South African Clothing and Textile Workers Union (Sactwu), a Cosatu affiliate, discovered that the T-shirts distributed to mark the occasion were made in China.
The loud protests disrupted an address by Cosatu President Willie Madisha. Cosatu supports the Proudly South African campaign in its efforts to halt the dumping of cheap Chinese imports on the South African market, threatening the jobs of Sactwu members. The offending T-shirts were handed to each of the thousands of Cosatu members who descended on Absa Stadium for the anniversary celebrations, which were attended by ANC Deputy President Jacob Zuma.
The crowd began throwing the T-shirts on to the field, forming a pile which was collected by security marshals who took them to the Cosatu leadership. Cosatu General Secretary Zwelinzima Vavi halted proceedings and apologised to the disgruntled members who had become rowdy.
"It has been brought to our attention that some of the T-shirts that have been made available to us were made in China.
"The South African Clothing and Textile Workers' Union, an affiliate of Cosatu, are the ones who are directly affected by the dumping of cheap products into our country and we apologise to them and our comrades elsewhere in the country," said Vavi. He said the regrettable error "occurred in the rush of things where we requested some people to arrange for the sponsoring of the T-shirt, resulting in this serious mistake".
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