Cosatu supports Popcru’s call for an increase in the death grant for police officers [SOUND]

# Cosatu says it supports the demand by the Police and Prisons Civil Rights Union for an increase in the death grant for police officers. Twenty-seven officers died in the line of duty between 1st April 2024 and 31st March this year. Cosatu’s spokesperson, Zanele Sabela, says it is unacceptable that the death grant of 250-thousand-rand has remained unchanged since inception, which cannot sustain the families of fallen officers: