The Congress of South African Trade Unions in Limpopo will be embarking on an Ant-Racism march on the 27th June 2016 in Tzaneen. The march is part of a host of other campaigns to be implemented, as resolved by the 12th National Congress of the federation, held in November 2015.

Many of our people in the country and in our province in particular continue to be victims of racist attacks and discrimination at their workplaces and in communities. We still have workplaces where bathrooms are allocated along racial lines. There are racist attacks/assaults cases that were opened in areas like Tzaneen with the SAPS ; yet they have never been to court for almost a year now.

As COSATU ,we reiterate our call for the Provincial Detectives to take over all cases of racial assault in the province. We will be engaging the Human Rights Commission to investigate all cases of racial discrimination as well.

Meanwhile, the two suspects who assaulted Mr Johannes Monyela in Tzaneen Sasol petrol station will be appearing at the Tzaneen Magistrate Court on the 27th June 2016. We are therefore inviting our alliance, MDM structures and ordinary black and white people to join our Anti-Racism march planned as follows:

Date                     : 27th June 2016

Assembly point     : Tzaneen Library, next to Greater Tzaneen Municipal offices

Destination           : Tzaneen Magistrate Court

Time of Departure: 08h00

The media is invited to come and cover the march.

For more information contact Gerald Mkhomazi Twala, COSATU Provincial Secretary at 071 587 2872