Johannesburg - A group of protesters at Cosatu's Johannesburg headquaters took to marching down an adjacent street on Friday morning as they waited for feedback from officials.
The group of around 50 sang anti-e-toll slogans and marched up and down Simmonds Street in Braamfontein.
Dressed in red Cosatu attire they danced in a circle, singing in Zulu: “What you are doing is wrong”. One man held a poster reading “Bring back freeway”.
Congress of SA Trade Unions Gauteng chairman Phutas Tseki told the group at the entrance of Cosatu House that all organisations involved would meet to discuss the court papers they received on Thursday. Tseki said they would brief the media and the public afterwards.
Members of the Johannesburg metro police, the SA Police Service and provincial traffic officials kept a watchful eye.
Tseki was expected to brief the protesters soon.
The trade union federation was deciding whether to go ahead with a drive-slow protest on the city's highways. The Johannesburg Magistrate's Court on Thursday dismissed its application to do so. Cosatu approached the court after metro police refused it permission. - Sapa