The Citizen reports that former City of Tshwane contract workers took to the streets of Pretoria on Wednesday to hand over a memorandum to the Democratic Alliance (DA).

This was in another desperate attempt to get answers after hundreds were left unemployed when their contracts expired in October last year. They claim they were unfairly dismissed. Cedric Cele, leader of the contract workers, said they hadn’t received any feedback in the past 11 months. “For months now, no answers and no updates from the City. So we here to hold the DA accountable,” Cele said, adding that “cheap politics were to blame for being unemployed”. When the new administration took over in October last year, no one bothered to relook at the expired contracts, Cele stated. “With the upcoming local elections, we cannot have a mayor or a mayor candidate who neglected his workers. Before they tell us what they are going to do they must tell us what happened,” he said. DA councillor Mpho Mehlape-Zimu said the workers must remember there was a clear separation between the party and the state. Mehlape-Zimu told workers to bring their contact details to the office so that the DA could request a report from the City in hopes of getting the workers answers.

• Read the full original of the report in the above regard by Marizka Coetzer at The Citizen
• Read too, Ex-Tshwane City staff demand answers from DA after 600 ‘unlawful dismissals’, at EWN

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