The hub of South Africa’s capitalism and the home to many Black and African migrant laborers, from all corners of our country and beyond our borders – Gauteng province – will over this weekend, Saturday 29 November 2014 – Sunday 30 November 2014, will witness the official launch of the United Front (UF), at Image Lifestyle Conference Centre, 85 Mint (Cnr Carr) Street, Newtown, Johannesburg.
The launch is an outcome to Numsa’s watershed Special National Congress (SNC) resolutions “to establish a United Front, similar to the UDF of the 80’s, to link workplace place struggles with community struggles” and to fight against neoliberal accumulation trajectory that has asserted its hegemony in South Africa and which continues to erode the revolutionary and momentary gains ushered by the 1994 democratic breakthrough.
The union has targeted Gauteng as the first provincial launch because the province is characterised by inequality and poverty that exist side-by-side with obscene wealth. Gauteng’s launch will serve as a precursor to the national launch of the United Front, scheduled for December 13, 2014 –until- December 16, 2014.
The launch sees the coming together of sixty-one (61) community-based; youth and students bodies; faith-based and women bodies, and trade unions.  The United Front will be deeply involved in a number of protest actions and campaigns, geared towards confronting the logic of neoliberalism in our communities; workplaces and society at large.
Speakers at the launch, includes Cde’s Moeletsi Mbeki; Adv Dumisa Ntsebeza; Bishop Paul Verryn; and Numsa’s President Andrew Chirwa. The launch will be attended by close to 250 delegates drawn from different organisations as mentioned-above, and it will be held under the strategic theme “ Enough is Enough: Building a United Front of workers and communities”.
The launch is a culmination of intensive work by committed and vibrant activists located in various localities; townships and squatter camps in the province of Gauteng.
The details are as follows:
DATE: Saturday 29 November 2014
TIME: 10H00am
VENUE: Image Lifestyle Conference Centre, 85 Mint (Cnr Carr) Str, Newtown
Members of the media are hereby invited to attend and report.
Contact:
Castro Ngobese
Numsa National Spokesperson
Mobile: 083 627 5197
Tel (dir): 011 689 1702
Email: castron@numsa.org.za
Twitter: @castrongobes