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The prostest was against the minimum wage being:

1. Very low - a poverty wage of R28.79 per hour.
2. Hourly paid instead of monthly - and some workers only get a few hours work a week or month.
3. Increased by only a few cents every year - further impoverishing workers; and
4. A wage where yearly increases are decided by a tiny, elite group of NGO leaders, academics and union bureaucrats - we demand public hearings where minimum wage earners can tell the so-called National Minimum Wage Commission exactly how much money workers need in order to live.

We demand a living wage, not a poverty minimum wage!

For interviews:
Tshepiso Mphofe of the Izwi Domestic Workers' Alliance on 071 840 7746:
Nandi Vanqa-Mgijima of the Southern African Regional Network on 065 848 3196 Siphokazi Mvambi of the Simunye Workers' Forum on 078 295 9547 Patrick Mlaba of the Human Rights Defenders Advice Centre on 073 377 9249

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Category: CAMPAIGN | SCRAP THE LABOUR AMENDMENT BILLS