A march by Cosatu to Parliament on Wednesday will demand that the government places an immediate freeze on food prices.
Biofuels have caused world food prices to increase by 75%, according to the findings of an unpublished World Bank report.
Cosatu is determined to take strike action against food and fuel prices, writes Matuma Letsoalo
African states have been urged unite to reduce the impact of soaring food prices that have hit their citizens harder than the rest of the world.
Investors have concerns about South Africa, former Federal Reserve chairperson Alan Greenspan told a conference in Sandton on Tuesday.
The Africa Progress Panel, chaired by Kofi Annan, on Monday demanded international action to deal with the urgent threat of world food prices.
Food prices are expected to rise rapidly in the next year because farmers are planting less as input costs escalate.
Thomas Malthus, the 18th-century cleric, must be chuckling in his grave. His grim prediction that humanity faced a future of rising food prices and mounting malnutrition has finally arrived.
The rising cost of food is a time bomb that could result in uprisings, African National Congress president Jacob Zuma told the World Economic Forum on Africa on Thursday.
A United Nations summit on the global food crisis asked rich nations on Wednesday to help ”revolutionise” farming in Africa to produce more food for people facing hunger.