Communication workers face losing their jobs due to state capture, SACP says
Workers in the communications sector faced widespread retrenchments as a result of state capture‚ Communications Workers Union (CWU) general secretary Aubrey Tshabalala said on Friday. He said the effects of state capture were being felt particularly at the SABC‚ where workers were not getting salary increases‚ and at television news channel Afro Worldview (formerly ANN7)‚ where there were job losses as a result of the closure of the former Gupta-owned channel. Tshabalala made these comments during the SACP’s march to the state capture commission of inquiry in Parktown‚ Johannesburg‚ to show support for the commission’s work. The commission began on Monday. On Friday‚ while the march was taking place outside‚ the commission heard the evidence of former deputy finance minister Mcebisi Jonas‚ who detailed how the Hawks had attempted to deliberately sabotage the investigation into the Guptas’ attempt to bribe him. Jonas testified that the head of the Hawks’s anticorruption unit alleged...
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