COSATU calls for a bold stimulus package for jobs and growth in the medium-term budget [SOUND]

# Union federation COSATU says minister of Finance Enoch Godongwana’s medium-term budget comes at a time when workers are under siege, with unemployment rising to a dangerously high 43.8-percent, and the economy continues to limp along at 1.2-percent growth. He will deliver the statement in Parliament on Wednesday. COSATU’s Matthew Parks says key interventions must include a bold stimulus package for jobs and growth, and relief through releasing ten-billion-rand from the Central Energy Fund’s Equalisation Fund: