The National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) and the South African Communist Party (SACP) are set to lead a protest outside the Western Cape provincial legislature on Friday.
The unions are calling for urgent action against violent crime and corruption.
The protest comes as gang violence continues to plague the Cape Flats, with multiple people dying in mass shootings every week. NUM Western Cape Regional Secretary, Mlondolozi Limaphi.
“On behalf of the people of the Western Cape, who live under the daily gunfire, extortion, GBV and Femicide, we are picketing today outside the Western Cape provincial legislature to hand over a memorandum to the senior authorities of the SAPS, the provincial government and the city of Cape Town.”
Limaphi adds, “the city of Cape Town has become a crime scene of dangerous proportions. For decades, black working class townships have carried the brunt of murder, gang warfare and violent crimes under government of the DA.”
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Two women have been shot and killed in Mitchell’s Plain on the Cape Flats in Cape Town this afternoon. Police say a young boy was also injured in the shooting. For more visit https://t.co/TS6YUmNBRC
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