"We are just too tired of getting blackmailed all the time, " Zwelinzima Vavi, the General Secretary of COSATU, told the BBC's World Business Report.

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Mary Miller, a marketing executive, says that while she and her husband talk at home in the evening about making time for each other, "we are often too tired once we finish cleaning up the place, " she says.

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We are very often too tired, too busy, too exhausted mentally and physically to stand up and shout enough is enough, and please help.

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There were too many long balls, which we are trying to make sure doesn't happen, but when players are tired it's the easy option.

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