The Citizen reports that justice was served when the City of Tshwane was ordered to reappoint and reimburse more than 200 former Capacity employees who had been unlawfully dismissed.

The Capacity contract workers were dismissed in 2020 when their contracts expired and the city refused to keep them on. Over the past year, the workers participated in various marches to hand over memorandums containing demands that they be reinstated to their previous positions and reimbursed for the loss of income. The leader of the Capacity workers, Cedric Cele, said they could not wait to report for duty. Last Friday, the workers met with Cele at Church Square where he gave them the good news. The Bargaining Council had not only ruled in favour of the workers, but had ordered the city to reinstate them and pay them 11 months’ back pay. Cele explained that the contracts had been unlawfully terminated: “The nature of the job they did was permanent, not of temporary nature.”

• Read the full original of the report in the above regard by Marizka Coetzer at The Citizen

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