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As South Africa celebrates Workers’ Day, it faces a number of pressing issues, chief of which is the economy’s inability to create jobs.
Proposals to remove provincial governments and give municipalities more authority over local affairs have been made by Azapo, which launched its provincial manifesto at the weekend. The launch was in Patensie outside Gqeberha on Saturday followed by a door-to-door campaign in Ncera outside East London the day after.
The party launched its provincial manifesto in Patensie outside Gqeberha on Saturday
This year, Workers’ Day was marked amid unprecedented high levels of unemployment, rising cost of living, dependency on the state for social grants and growing inequality.
ANC chair Gwede Mantashe has asked the party’s alliance partners to go easy on the ruling party over the load-shedding crisis. Instead, Mantashe asked that the ANC government be acknowledged for its rollout of electrification across the country.