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News24 reports that Pikitup has resumed refuse collection around Johannesburg and Soweto with armed escorts protecting employees who had their lives threatened last week amid a row over hiring practices.
Pikitup trucks are now being escorted by Johannesburg Metro Police Department (JMPD) and the SA Police Service. Spokesperson Muzi Mkhwanazi indicated that services had resumed on Friday by agreement with Pikitup employees, who had had a terrifying week after one staffer was even doused in petrol and threatened with being set alight. Five people were arrested in connection with that incident. Three trucks were also torched. The company's depots from Soweto to as far afield as Midrand had to close after staff were being threatened following claims that the only way to get a job there was to pay somebody off. Mkhwanazi said another claim was that people from outside the region were being hired through pay offs. "Let them bring evidence so that this can be dealt with," he stated and added that Pikitup was being audited so, if the claims were true, they would be detected.
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