Pretoria News reports that on Tuesday morning Ga-Rankuwa Industrial Park security officers downed tools and shut down the offices of the company in charge of the industrial area over non-payment.  

Aggrieved over "constantly" delayed salary payments, they shut the gate of the North West Development Cooperation (NWDC), claiming the company had appointed a security company that had not paid them in two months.  The shutdown subsequently affected services at the Ga-Rankuwa SA Social Service Agency (Sassa) offices housed inside the NWDC building.  Chairperson of the local SA National Civil Organisation (Sanco), Peter Magagula, said NWCP as the property owner of the industrial area had for years been appointing security services providers that have all struggled to make consistent salary payments.  Magagula said:  "This time they appointed Matome Moloto Projects but this is a security company from Limpopo and they don't even have offices here.  We are struggling to find them because you don't know where to go.  When we make contact with them to ask why we have not been paid in two months they tell us that they too are waiting for money from NWDC.  It was for that reason that we decided we are going to shut down their operations.”  The protestors said they weren’t going to stop their demonstrations until NWDC and the security company came together and hosted a meeting with them to answer their questions.

• Read the full original of the report in the above regard by James Mahlokwane at Pretoria News

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