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To: Festive Fresh Chickens, Goldi Frozen Chicken, County Fair, Hungry Lion, KFC, Pick n Pay no-name brand, Checkers and Nando's.
Boycott Festive Chicken Products
1300 Festive workers began a strike on 29 October 2026. They are paid as little as R5600 per month for working 45 hours a week. Workers on the Festive chicken farms work 48 hours a week for R7300 per month and do not get overtime pay for Sunday work and Holiday work, only normal pay.
We stand with the workers in demanding a minimum wage of R13 500 per month. Workers are tired of poverty wages; they work every day but remain poor and stuck in poverty.
Why is this important?
“We are actually the working poor. We cannot meet our basic needs, and we struggle to support our unemployed family members and also send money to our relatives in rural areas.
The average cost of a basic food basket of groceries is R 5 530 per month as of July 2026. Earning R5 530.52 per month means that we cannot afford to pay for transport, rent, water, electricity, clothing, education, data, health care, entertainment, and bereavement.
We pay so much for transport and electricity that we don’t have money for food. Yet Festive bosses are making millions. Recently, Festive/Astral paid R342 million to the shareholders.
The CEO of Festive/Astral earned R27.9 million in one year. It will take a Festive Worker about 415 years to earn what the Festive CEO earned in one year.”
A call to communities and the public! Thousands of workers at Festive (part of Astral Foods) call on you to boycott Festive chicken products in solidarity.