Cosatu wants government to declare war on unemployment [SOUND]

# Union federation Cosatu says the country needs a Medium-Term Budget Policy Statement that will boldly declare war on unemployment and kickstart a painfully weak economy. South Africa’s official unemployment rate increased from 32.9-percent in the first quarter of this year to 33.5-percent in the second quarter. Cosatu’s Matthew Parks says the government and the private sector need to appreciate the crisis facing the unemployed and their families: