Cosatu to join ZCTU in next month's strike

HARARE – The Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) will next month join the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) in its two-day strike by demonstrating "in all the establishments of the Zimbabwe Government".

In a statement released in Harare, the ZCTU said COSATU would target Zimbabwe government establishments such as its High Commission in South Africa in solidarity with the general strike called by the ZCTU on 3 and 4 April.

Masuku said Cosatu appreciated, however, that "perhaps President Mugabe" and Hugo Chavez, the Venezuelan president, were among the "very few world leaders willing to confront head-on the naked hypocrisy and general aggression of the United States government".