South African Workers Continue Strike

(2 Sept 10 - RV) Striking South African state workers planned a protest march today as their leaders held meetings with government negotiators after rejecting a revised wage offer aimed at ending their three-week strike.

The majority of unions, most of which are in the largest labour federation COSATU, voted against the offer yesterday, prolonging a strike by 1.3 million state workers that a prominent economist said was costing about $150 million a day.

The editor of South Africa’s Southern Cross Newspaper, Gunther Simmermacher, said people are growing impatient with the strike…