08 April - Labour - South African Creative workers to take on FIFA!!!

In today's show we were joined on the line by Mabutho ‘Kid’ Sithole – President of the Creative Workers Union of South Africa. The union and the uMkhonto weSizwe Military Veterans Association are planning a National Day of Action against the exclusion of creative workers by 2010 World Cup LOC and FIFA. The two organisations have jointly agreed to use their "mass power" to make the planned 2010 World Cup Concert at the Orlando Stadium, inclusive of local and African artists. They say their conviction is informed by the 2010 Local Organizing Committee and FIFA pledge that this year’s world cup is for Africa and Africans! Therefore Africans must dominate in all the planned festivities and cultural events during the 2010 FIFA World Cup. The union shall be organising mass action, including a mass march to the offices of the 2010 LOC, on the 15th of April. In this mass action they will be joined by members of the South African Football Players Union and uMkhonto weSizwe Military Veterans Association and progressive formations in attendance. They call on all South Africans join the action in solidarity with the creative workers of our country and the continent. As part of exerting pressure to FIFA and the 2010 LOC to adhere to their demands, they call on: 1. Hawkers, taxi drivers, street vendors, unemployed and ALL South Africans to fight the evil of FIFA’s & 2010 LOC’s exclusion of cultural workers in the Concert and other related cultural events scheduled for the 2010 FIFA World Cup. 2. Citizens of South Africa in general and Gauteng in particular to boycott the planned Concert at Orlando Stadium because of the exclusion of their favourite artists and entertainers.

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