{{South Africa’s biggest union has called a one-day strike for Wednesday to highlight youth unemployment in the country, where one in four people are jobless, the union said.}}<\/p>\n
The 340,000-member National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (NUMSA) draws its members from car manufacturing, the metal industry, transport and general workers.<\/p>\n
The strike would be the latest in a string of work stoppages in Africa’s largest economy, weeks before a May 7 general election.<\/p>\n
“It is a strike that members in all other unions can join. We think half a million workers will take part,” Karl Cloete, deputy general secretary of NUMSA, told Reuters on Sunday.<\/p>\n
In December, NUMSA, the biggest bloc in the COSATU labor grouping, said it would not support the ruling African National Congress in the election.<\/p>\n
Many South Africans are disgruntled by the slow pace at which the ANC led by President Jacob Zuma is rolling back poverty two decades after the end of apartheid.<\/p>\n
A strike over wages in the platinum sector has been going on for nearly two months and has cost employees more than 3.8 billion rand ($354 million) in lost earnings.<\/p>\n
The strike has cost mining companies 8.6 billion rand in revenue so far, according to a tally updated almost every second on the Chamber of Mines’ website.<\/p>\n
($1 = 10.7215 South African Rand)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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