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ANA reports that thousands of City of Tshwane workers flooded central Pretoria and caused traffic congestion on Thursday, demanding salary adjustments as well as labour brokering to be done away with.
Outside the Tshwane Municipal offices, SA Municipal Workers’ Union (Samwu) members demanded to be addressed by Mayor Stevens Mokgalapa. According to Samwu, the municipality’s top directors received 18% increases since 2017, to the exclusion of lower-ranked municipal workers. The union said the mass action by thousands of workers from various departments was a demonstration that workers wanted the same 18% increase twice for each year the senior directors had received it. Samwu’s Tshwane deputy regional secretary, Valentine Matlala, pointed out that the City of Tshwane had been upgraded in ranking meaning that its workers could be paid more, but the increases benefited only top-level managers. Mokgalapa tried to address the crowd, but was drowned out when he didn’t announce the 18% increase that Matlala claimed had been agreed upon in a meeting. According to Mokgalapa, everything was scheduled to be ironed out on Friday in another meeting with stakeholders.
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