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GroundUp reports that several hundred people under the banner of Limpopo Community Health Workers marched on Tuesday from Giyani police station to the Mopani District Department of Health, demanding to be made permanent employees.
They also claimed the municipality owed them money because they should have received R3,500 per month for the past year, but were paid R2,200. They said they also wanted a R2,500 a month “Covid allowance” for the period of the past 12 months. A lack of personal protective equipment for Covid-19 was also a major concern. “It seems the municipality does not consider us to be frontline workers. At times when the municipality delays handing us face masks we buy or use pieces of cloth … The municipality tells us that it does not have face masks. Yet nurses have a constant supply.” said Grace Nkuna, a community health worker since 2007. Some health workers claimed they even have to buy their blue uniforms. The marchers were joined by some administrators, groundsmen and Expanded Public Work Programme workers, who accused the municipality of unfair recruitment practices and officials of nepotism. Ernest Mboweni, Mopani District Deputy Director Labour Relations, accepted the memo and said it would receive attention.
- Read the full original of the report in the above regard by Bernard Chiguvare at GroundUp
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