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Netwerk24 reports that a nationwide strike by about 6,000 social workers and care givers had been on the go for 10 days on Thursday, with no end in sight notwithstanding an interdict against the strikers.
The state workers, who say they earn a minimum salary of R6,000 a month, are demanding a 14% increase. Two persons, a five-month old baby and the head of a care centre for children in KwaZulu-Natal, have died during the course of the strike, which began on 13 March 2017. Instances of intimidation have been reported countrywide. Gauteng has been hit the hardest in terms of the number of children who have had to be moved to other institutions. In Limpopo, two of the Department of Social Development’s centres and a number of district offices have been affected by the strike. The North West department has also had to curtail services. In the Western Cape, the situation is apparently in hand. (Loosely translated from Afrikaans)
- Read this report by Reneilwe Dhludhlu in Afrikaans at Netwerk24 (limit on access)
- See too, Health workers' strike leaves Limpopo patients in the lurch, at TimesLive
- And also, Nehawu members stage picket in Cape Town, at Cape Times
- As well as, 'We are in the profession of helping people but no one is helping us‚' says striking social worker, at TimesLive
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