“The people have to lead the leaders.” explained Irvin Jim, the general secretary of the National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (NUMSA).
He said his country “is sitting on a tinderbox” and that “The situation is brutal and harsh,” Irvin Jim said. “The social illness that people experience each day is terrible. The rate of crime has become very high. The gender-based violence experienced by women is very high. The statistics show us that basically people are fighting for crumbs.”
In the new South Africa, he said, “Africans can go to the beach. They can take their children to the school of their choice. They can choose where to live. But access to these rights is determined by their economic position in society. If you have no access to economic power, then you have none of these liberties.”
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