BusinessLive reports that community health workers have taken their grievances to Gauteng Health MEC Gwen Ramokgopa.  

According to Jack Bloom, Gauteng health spokesperson for the Democratic Alliance (DA), the workers staged a sit-in on Thursday after some of them were paid late or discharged.  Police were apparently called in to remove protesters who occupied Ramokgopa’s office.  Bloom said he had been inundated" by complaints from community health workers who received a message from SmartPurse‚ contracted by the Gauteng health department to pay them, telling them that due to "technical delays"‚ they would receive their stipends by Monday, 5 March.  "It is appalling that about 8‚000 community health workers were not paid their R2‚500 stipend in February‚ causing much misery to them and their families,” Bloom commented.

• Read this report in full at BusinessLive

Get other news reports at the SA Labour News home page