South African workers go on strike to protest against rising cost of living


JOHANNESBURG, Aug. 24 (Xinhua) -- Thousands of South African workers across the country took to the streets Wednesday to protest the rising cost of living.

With calls from the country's two leading union groupings, the Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) and South African Federation of Trade Unions (SAFTU), workers marched to the Union Buildings in Pretoria, where President Cyril Ramphosa's official offices are located.

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