A DEMOCRATIC Alliance T-shirt was torched by members of the Congress of South African Trade Unions during the union's picket at the party's offices in Mount Edgecombe, north of Durban, yesterday.
A handful of Cosatu members, including the union's provincial secretary Zet Luzipho and South African Democratic Teachers' Union provincial secretary Mbuyiseni Mathonsi, gathered outside Fairways.
They sang anti-Helen Zille songs, calling her derogatory names. Some carried placards saying "no to subsidised youth exploitation".
But the situation turned ugly when DA provincial youth chairman Nathaniel Bricknell came out of the offices and asked why Cosatu was protesting against the wage subsidy call by the DA.
"Don't tell us that nonsense. What do you know about caring for unemployed people? Do you even know how it feels to be unemployed," shouted some protesters.
Bricknell tried to respond, saying that he knows of a number of young people who are unemployed, but the protesters would hear none of it. In the process, he threw a DA T-shirt at the crowd and they tore it into pieces before burning it.
DA's provincial chairperson Sizwe Mchunu described the Cosatu picket as a "desperate attempt to detract from the real issue - the chance for thousands of unemployed South Africans to find work through the DA's proposed youth wage subsidy".
Angry protesters set DA T-shirt on fire
A DEMOCRATIC Alliance T-shirt was torched by members of the Congress of South African Trade Unions during the union's picket at the party's offices in Mount Edgecombe, north of Durban, yesterday.
A handful of Cosatu members, including the union's provincial secretary Zet Luzipho and South African Democratic Teachers' Union provincial secretary Mbuyiseni Mathonsi, gathered outside Fairways.
They sang anti-Helen Zille songs, calling her derogatory names. Some carried placards saying "no to subsidised youth exploitation".
But the situation turned ugly when DA provincial youth chairman Nathaniel Bricknell came out of the offices and asked why Cosatu was protesting against the wage subsidy call by the DA.
"Don't tell us that nonsense. What do you know about caring for unemployed people? Do you even know how it feels to be unemployed," shouted some protesters.
Bricknell tried to respond, saying that he knows of a number of young people who are unemployed, but the protesters would hear none of it. In the process, he threw a DA T-shirt at the crowd and they tore it into pieces before burning it.
DA's provincial chairperson Sizwe Mchunu described the Cosatu picket as a "desperate attempt to detract from the real issue - the chance for thousands of unemployed South Africans to find work through the DA's proposed youth wage subsidy".