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Netwerk24 reports that a number of non-striking employees of the Gauteng Department of Social Development (DSD) have been seriously injured, with one of them admitted to intensive care, after they were assaulted at their homes by strikers.
A nationwide strike by about 6,000 social workers, care givers and nurses has been ongoing since 13 March. No end is in sight, notwithstanding a court interdict against the strikers. Amongst other things, they are demanding salary increases of 14%. The violence broke out on Wednesday. According to DSD spokesperson Mbangwa Xaba, the strikers attacked the non-strikers at their homes. He said the injured were from Ekurhuleni, Johannesburg and Soweto. A DSD vehicle was set alight at the Senawa service centre in Soweto. The provincial department called on negotiators from the national department and the National Education Health and Allied Workers' Union (Nehawu) to find a solution because “we don’t want to experience loss of life.” Xaba also said the DSD might be forced to suspend services if things continued in the present way. (Loosely translated from Afrikaans)
- Read this report by Reneilwe Dhludhlu in full in Afrikaans at Netwerk24 (limit on access)
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