Placards do the talking at #SABCStrike
SABC employees protest as they call for a 10% wage increase. Picture: Twitter SABC employees protest as they call for a 10% wage increase. Picture: Twitter
DURBAN - Hundreds of SABC employees - among them journalists - took to the streets of Johannesburg, Cape Town and Durban, demanding a 10% wage increase from the public broadcaster.
The workers, held placards with slogans such as "away with captured management" and "0% is for cows", as unions BEMWASU and CWU demand a 10% wage increase from management. Management has offered workers a zero percent increase, citing a need to stabilise the SABC's finances.
The workers used social media to show their dissatisfaction and the SABC, with public broadcaster employees using the hashtag #WeAreSABC as part of their protest.
Here are some of the placards from the protest.
1. "Pay your staff, it's the right thing to do"
#SABCstrike is about the get underway. pic.twitter.com/nTuPXXq0z5
— Nokuthula Ntuli (@nyntuli) November 2, 2017
2. "We give 100%, you can give 10% #WeAreSABC"
#WeAreSABC pic.twitter.com/DDss5aTTBr
— Abra Barbier (@BarbierAbra)
3. "Can you eat Zero?"
#wearesabc WORKERS IN HIGH SPIRIT we have downed TOOLS. pic.twitter.com/TcS2IfKOyV
— Nonkululeko Hlophe (@Leko3)
4. "I didn't give you 0%"
#SABCStrike pic.twitter.com/i41Z5FLSB6
— Liabo Setho (@LiaboSetho)
5. "Had the powers that be not allowed someone to waste our money we wouldn't be here!"
#sabcstrike #wearesabc pic.twitter.com/Lwj1Z4XvTq
— Thabo TT Madilola (@tbotouch67)
6. "9 months of labour - no baby"
#wearesabc We are ready for 10 percent. pic.twitter.com/xIeNgldVFW
— Nonkululeko Hlophe (@Leko3)
SABC employees even remixed President Jacob Zuma's trademark song from give me my machine gun, to give me my money.
#WeareSABC pic.twitter.com/1RA1OUWsmn
— Dirontsho Dotwana (@dotwanad)
SUNDAY TRIBUNE