Tomorrow South Africa will join the rest of the world in celebrating Workers’ Day. The plight of workers across government and private institutions is expected to be put in the spotlight just before the 8 May 2019 general elections.

Du Plessis says radical, populist rhetoric has given potential investors a scare and this has played a major role in the decline of the economy and the loss of jobs.

Meanwhile, The Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) spokesperson, Sizwe Pamla, says since the dawn of the democracy in 1994, efforts by the government to try and attend to the plight of workers both in government and private institutions leaves a lot to be desired.

Over the past few years, reports of workers dying on duty across mining companies in the country took centre stage in the debate around whether enough or adequate stringent measure have been put forward to address the problem.

One labour expert from the department of labour in the Free State, Isaac Mogwase, disagrees with this notion. He says a lot has been achieved during the space of 25 years. He says currently in the Free State they are sitting with far less complaints from workers and allegations that they are dragging their feet to attend issues plaguing workers, is far from the truth.

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