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ANC to save Africa’s clothing and textile industry

In 2010, during massive job losses, the clothing and textile industry was saved by it, claims the African National Congress (ANC) and they can do this even for other sectors, it further state.

Clothing and textile workers union, South African Clothing and Textile Workers Union (SACTWU) says the industry has stabilised and at least 2,400 jobs have been created in 2014 alone. This despite an estimated 100,000 job losses in the sector between 2003 and 2011.

In Cape Town, hundreds of people joined the Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) march against job losses and retrenchments recently.

The ANC said that it saw what happens when the government comes together and they saved the textile and clothing industry and that they would ensure that jobs were protected.

Faeiz Jacobs of the African National Congress (ANC) says that the clothing and textile industry was suffering, the ANC stepped in and saved thousands of jobs. He added that at the party’s upcoming National General Council (NGC), Cosatu’s demands and grievances will be discussed.

However, Khalid Sayed, the ANC Youth League’s leader is sceptical and feels that the NGC must not be only a ‘talk shop’. www.anc.org.za

 
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