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GroundUp reported on Friday that community health care workers across Gauteng had, since the day before, been involved in shutting down contract signing centres.
This came despite Minister of Finance Tito Mboweni announcing in his budget speech on Wednesday that “R1 billion has been added to raise the wages of community health care workers to R3,500 per month”. On Friday, Zama Mthunzi from the Gauteng Community Health Care Forum said: “We are targeting all contract signing centres in Gauteng. We do not want to continue signing contracts. We want the Minister of Health to keep his promise and make us permanent employees.” After shutting down the Community Health Care centre in Hilbrow, workers headed to the Department of Health in Johannesburg and demanded to see Minister of Health Aaron Motsoaledi. “We were surprised when our superiors announced that we were to sign a 12-month contract and continue earning the R3,500 stipend. How does that happen when Motsoaledi announced last year in November that we are now going to be earning R6,000 as permanent workers?” asked Zoleka Mbotshelwa from Westrand. Five worker representatives were allowed into the building to present their grievances. The health department promised to forward the matter to the Minister and revert in seven days.
- Read the original version of Kimberly Mutandiro’s report on this story in full at GroundUp
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