EWN reports that the National Education, Health and Allied Workers' Union (Nehawu) says it has not received notification of a court interdict to stop its action at the Dr Yusuf Dadoo Hospital in Krugersdorp.  

Workers’ complaints relate to poor working conditions, corruption and mismanagement, but patients are bearing the brunt of the feud between staff and hospital management.  On Tuesday night, hospital management said that it had obtained an urgent interdict forcing employees to return to their posts on Wednesday morning.  Nehawu's Tshepo Mokheranyane said:  "We can confirm our workers are on strike.  On Monday workers across unions decided to disengage.  They want to get management’s attention."  Meanwhile, the Democratic Nursing Organisation of SA (Denosa), whose members are also part of the demonstration, said service delivery at hospitals should never be disrupted, but workers’ issues must not be ignored.  The union's Simphiwe Gada said:  "We believe that this could have been prevented.  All workers wanted to do last week was engage with management, but management became stubborn."

• Read the original of Mia Lindeque’s short report on the strike at EWN
• And also, Striking workers say kitchen situation at Krugersdorp hospital dire, at EWN

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