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TimesLive reports that operations in a number of hospitals throughout the country were disrupted due to the strike by the National Education, Health and Allied Workers’ Union (Nehawu) on Monday.
Nehawu embarked on an indefinite strike to demand a 10% salary increase. National health department spokesperson Foster Mohale said several hospitals were affected by violent and disruptive action outside the facilities. He reported that disrupted hospitals included Carletonville, Leratong and Thelle Mogoerane in Gauteng. In the Free State, Mofumahadi Manapo Mopeli Regional Hospital and Pelonomi Hospital had been affected. In the North West, Tshepong, Witrand and Moses Kotane hospitals were partially operating and the situation was the same at Khayelitsha Hospital in the Western Cape. Nehawu spokesperson Lwazi Nkolonzi said workers were demonstrating peacefully but that force was allegedly used by private security to disperse striking workers. He claimed that at Leratong Hospital “they used violence to dispatch our members and as Nehawu we condemn that.” The Johannesburg Labour Court handed down a judgment on Saturday interdicting the strike. However, the union decided to go ahead with its action as it had filed an application for leave to appeal against the judgment.
- Read the full original of the report in the above regard by Sinesipho Schrieber at BusinessLive
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