South Africa's biggest trade union, the Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU), is staging a nationwide strike.<br /><br />The union, which is expected to be backed by the youth league of the ruling party, the African National Congress (ANCYL), and the South African Democratic Teachers' Union (SADTU), wants a ban on labour brokers who act as middlemen between employers and workers.<br /><br />The union is also protesting against, among other things, a system of e-tolling which would see people paying to use public roads and which it says would have an acute impact on the poor.<br /><br />Al Jazeera's Haru Mutasa reports from Johannesburg.
