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EFF defies interdict against march on Monday, calls for Tshwane to reinstate 600 workers 'inappropriately' terminated

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effTimesLive reports that the EFF's Tshwane branch has called on the City of Tshwane to reinstate and back pay 600 waste and capacity workers whose contracts were ended in October 2020.

The group marched to the city office on Monday despite the High Court in Pretoria having granted the city an urgent interdict against the march on Monday morning. The court ruled that the EFF’s march was illegal and instructed marchers to immediately disperse. Leading the march, EFF Gauteng spokesperson Philip Makwala said: “We are here to demand that the municipality comply with the local bargaining council award that all 600 workers must be reinstated and be given their monies for 16 months.” On the court interdict, he said: “The city [was] issued an interdict around 9 to 9:30am and our march was supposed to commence at 10am. Only when we were there did we see on our phones [the] interdict.” Makwala gave the city seven days to meet their demands and said failure to do so would result in them mobilising all branches in Gauteng and heading to the municipality. Tshwane mayor Randall William commented: “The EFF is a political party and yet it feels it can manipulate labour processes in the city to drive its own political agenda. However, today the high court ruled in the city’s favour and agreed with our view that political parties are not allowed to drive their own agendas by masquerading as trade union representatives on behalf of ex-employees.”

  • Read the full original of the report in the above regard by Shonisani Tshikalange at TimesLive
  • Read too, Court interdicts planned Tshwane march by EFF at eleventh hour, at The Citizen
  • En ook, Tshwane bekom interdik teen EFF-staking, by Maroela Media


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