The Mercury reports that senior managers at Northdale Hospital in Pietermaritzburg were humiliated and chased out of the hospital building on Tuesday by angry workers who stormed their offices and wrote threatening messages on the hospital’s walls.  

The hospital’s chief executive and acting HR manager were frog marched out of the hospital by the workers.  The two have been at loggerheads with the National Education, Health and Allied Workers Union (Nehawu) for some time over working conditions.  They have been accused of not listening to workers’ concerns, and the situation came to a head on Tuesday.  Nehawu’s Mazwi Ngubane said they would not want the incident at Northdale to be repeated, but that workers had had enough.  Dr Sandile Tshabalala, head of department, condemned the incident and said a high-level team of officials had since been deployed to the hospital.  In a statement the department pleaded with all aggrieved workers to desist from taking the law into their own hands, and to to follow established grievance management protocols so that the issues might be properly addressed.

• Read the full original of the report in the above regard by Thami Magubane at The Mercury

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