South African trade union NUMSA to strike from October 5 in engineering sector

CAPE TOWN- South African trade union Numsa will go on a national strike in the country's engineering sector from Oct. 5 after wage talks deadlocked, the union said on Tuesday.

"We will launch the strike with a national launch," the National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (Numsa) said in a statement.

(Reporting by Wendell Roelf; editing by Jason Neely) ((wendell.roelf@thomsonreuters.com; +27 21 461 3523;))