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DENOSA fully supports SACTWU in its march to SARS in Pretoria today
Media statement
Friday, 10 March 2017
The Democratic Nursing Organisation of South Africa (DENOSA) fully supports today’s march by Southern African Clothing and Textile Workers’ Union (SACTWU) to SARS offices in Pretoria to raise its concern over the negative impact of illegal clothing, textile, leather and footwear imports on the South African market.
The slackness by SARS to strictly impose import duties on these clothes result in the mass loss of jobs by South African workers. SARS also looks into further squeezing the already down-trodden South African workers in terms of tax whereas justice and fairness should be applying when imports gets into our shores.
DENOSA says SACTWU is fighting a good cause and must be supported by all those who are tired of seeing mass retrenchments in our clothing sector.
The towns of Salt River and Woodstock in Cape Town in the Western Cape, which used to be the thriving towns of booming clothing and textile sector, have since become the shadow of themselves as shop after shop gets closed down with hundreds of jobs.
Radical economic transformation should bring something to every South African; and it should also mean ensuring that South Africans do not lose jobs simply because the country is not efficient enough in controlling its borders, which threaten job security by bringing clothes, footwear and leather without paying a cent for them.
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Issued by the Democratic Nursing Organisation of South Africa (DENOSA)
For more information, contact:
Sibongiseni Delihlazo, DENOSA Communications Manager
Mobile: 072 584 4175
Email: sibongisenid@denosa.org.za
Website: www.denosa.org.za
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Twitter: @DENOSAORG
