SAFTU says the shrinking of the SA economy is a disaster [SOUND]

# The South African Federation of Trade Unions says the latest gross domestic product figures are a red alert of an economic catastrophe unfolding. South Africa’s economy contracted by 0.2-percent in the second quarter of this year, with three key industrial sectors, mining, manufacturing and trade, pushing national growth into negative territory. SAFTU’s Asive Dyani says that for a country already drowning in catastrophic unemployment, poverty, hunger and inequality, economic contraction is a disaster: