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Pretoria News reports that according to the City of Tshwane, personnel at its customer care centres have left their workstations due to ongoing intimidation from striking workers.
Their absence from work has affected customer care services relating to power failures, sewerage blockage, water meters, pipe leakages and waste collection. The City's spokesperson, Lindela Mashigo, indicated: "There is currently no personnel at the centres to attend to calls and e-mails. Only the SMS lines - 44676 and 082 612 0333 - for reporting power failure complaints are operational." But, he advised residents to anticipate delays on the turn-around of calls logged through to the SMS lines. Meanwhile, MMC for Roads and Transport, Sheila Senkubuge, reported that municipal bus operations were still suspended pending negotiations between the city and the SA Municipal Workers’ Union (Samwu) and the Independent Municipal and Allied Trade Union (Imatu) over an 18% salary increase demanded by the workers. The negotiations are taking place at the Bargaining Council in Centurion.
- Read the full original of the above report by Rapula Moatshe at Pretoria News
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