News24 reports that a group of about 40 job-seeking protesters has been evicted from the Tshwane health district offices in the Pretoria CBD after occupying the building illegally for two weeks and preventing workers from entering.

The eviction, through a court interdict, paved the way for at least 200 employees to return to their workstations. On Friday, the Gauteng High Court in Pretoria granted the Gauteng health department an order to remove the protesters. They were finally evicted on Saturday. The district office services 77 clinics in Tshwane. The department welcomed the court order, saying that the unlawful occupation affected operations negatively. With reference to the unlawful occupation, it reported that it had previously embarked on an extensive consultative process which had involved contract employees, unions and the provincial treasury. The department advised that the process, concluded in July, had led to the absorption of 8,619 community health workers who had been on contract into permanent posts. "We have noted that since the appointments were effected, following the conclusion of the verification processes, the department started receiving requests from people claiming to have been CHWs [community health workers] at some point," the department noted.

• Read the full original of the report in the above regard by Malibongwe Dayimani at News24
• Read too, Tshwane protesters out of government offices, at The Citizen

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