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The Sea Harvest Corporation did not show up during a picket outside its offices on Wednesday.

The protest has been led by the Congress of South African Trade Unions, in solidarity with the families of the 11 fishermen, missing at sea and presumed dead.

They’re part of a group of 20 crew, on board a Sea Harvest vessel that had run aground off the coast of Hout Bay in May.

COSATU had planned to hand over a memorandum of demands to the company but ended up leaving it at their doorstep.

The trade union federation has given the company 14 days to respond to its demands.

COSATU Provincial Secretary, Malvern de Bruyn, says they’ve tried to track down the families of the fishermen, but the company is withholding that information…


Here’s De Bruyn, reciting the memorandum of demands…

Attempts to get comment from Sea Harvest have been unsuccessful.