The New Age reports that, with the workers in the Mangaung metro continuing with a strike to demand a salary adjustment, the city has had to make provision for services to be paid in by residents.  

Since the strike started two weeks ago, most services have not been paid for as residents have struggled to access the Bram Fischer building and other municipal buildings around the metro.  City spokesperson Qondile Khedama said city management was ensuring that all essential services were not severely interrupted.  He advised residents and businesses who wanted to pay rates and taxes or purchase water or electricity services to do so at various third party points.  Workers in Mangaung are demanding salary adjustments in line with the status of the city as a metropolitan municipality.  Mangaung became a metro in 2011.  Among other demands, workers want the municipality to reinstate the contracts of temporary workers which were terminated earlier this year.  

• Read this report by Kamogelo Seekoei at SA Labour News

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