
South Africa’s biggest metal and engineering union has launched an indefinite strike over pay and conditions.
Around 155,000 members of the National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (Numsa) walked out on Tuesday and are still out. Their action could cause a shutdown of large parts of the engineering industry.
Striker Solomon Lindiwe told Socialist Worker, “We are very determined. Our pay is not enough. I have been working for a company for 12 years in a skilled trade and I get only 8,500 Rand (£420) a month.
“Many in my family have no job so I have to help them too.







