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Workers love not working on Workers Day

JOBURG - We hit the streets to find out what locals think about Workers' Day on 1 May. Here's what they had to say ...

April 29, 2016

Michael Butler Less than a minute

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ELLEEN HENDERSON: I don’t think people understand what they are celebrating anymore.

CHRIS BOLTON: Workers’ Day is a day to celebrate and acknowledge the input that workers’ unions had in the struggle against apartheid.

BENSON WEKESA: Workers’ Day celebrates all [that] the workers of this country have done for us. We can see it all around us.

KENSLY KAMANGA: I have no idea what Workers Day stands for, I’m just happy that I get the day off.

NICOLE LOMBARD: Workers’ Day is about celebrating the role of the proletariat, the labour-force essential to the survival of any form of enterprise. Viva the little people.

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Workers love not working on Workers Day

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