South Africa: Country Largely Ignores Calls for Mass Stayaway - But Concerns 'Fair and Factual', Admits Govt

[Daily Maverick] Calls by South Africa's two largest trade union federations for workers to shut down the economy on Wednesday seemed to go largely unheeded. Marches in major cities to protest against the cost of living crisis drew a maximum of a few thousand participants in each. While accepting that the unions' concerns are 'fair and factual', presidency representative Mondli Gungubele suggested that there was little that government could do.