Despite Mayor Cilliers Brink agreeing to accept a memorandum from the federation, he was not available to do so on the International Day of Descent Work.
The trade union federation says the move lays the foundation for a State bank that will be geared towards servicing ordinary consumers, in particular the poor and marginalised.
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