South Africa: Workers protest rising cost of living

Workers took to the streets in the South African city of Pretoria on Wednesday, following calls from the country’s biggest trade unions to protest rising inflation and power cuts.

Hundreds of people marched on the Union Buildings where the presidency is housed. The protesters called on President Cyril Ramaphosa and his government to bring rising prices and the rising cost of living under control.

“We cannot breathe,” Zwelinzima Vavi, general secretary of the South African Federation of…