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BusinessLive reports that Johannesburg mayor Herman Mashaba says interruptions to the city’s refuse removal services over the past two weeks have been "politically motivated".
In a statement on Wednesday, Mashaba noted that politically motivated protests had taken place outside Pikitup depots in the Soweto, Midrand, Diepsloot and Ivory Park areas over the past two weeks, and that they were in response to the city’s insourcing of contract workers to Pikitup. "We have received intelligence from individuals that former temporary contract workers are being approached by political forces in an effort to instigate instability within the city’s cleaning services," Mashaba claimed. He pointed out that when the decision to insource contract workers was announced, it was made clear that the city could only take a defined number of people, and that clear criteria had been agreed to through engagements with key labour and contract worker stakeholders. Meanwhile, Pikitup announced on Wednesday that a joint operations team, composed of the SA Police Service, the Johannesburg Metro Police, the Red Ants and Pikitup, had been established in order to ensure uninterrupted service delivery. The entity said this followed an incident on Monday when a Pikitup official "was assaulted and doused with petrol while trying to the address the jobseekers".
- Read this report by Claudi Mailovich in full at BusinessLive
- Read too, Job seekers threaten Pikitup staff, at SowetanLive
- Read Mashaba’s press statement at Politicsweb
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