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GroundUp reports that dozens of Nyanga and Gugulethu community health workers demonstrated outside Lentegeur Day Hospital in Mitchells Plain, Cape Town, on Wednesday.
Placards displayed by the protestors read: “We want our jobs back” and “Stop exploiting community health workers”. Vuyiseka Solani-Bibini, a shop steward at Anova Health Institute, said they had worked for St John’s Ambulance until its contract with the Western Cape health department ended. Some of them were then hired by Anova, which also hired SA Christian Leadership Assembly (SACLA) Health Project community workers. Caroline de Wet, a manager at the hospital who received the memorandum, said: “Every three years contracts with non-profit organisations are reassessed. St John’s Ambulance have not met the criteria to continue to get funding.” According to Solana-Bibini, 21 of the St John’s workers were not hired because Anova said their names were not on the Lentegeur Day Hospital’s list, but the workers could not understand why since they had been on the payroll for years. They said they wanted the health department to find employment for those who could not get jobs with Anova. Funeka Hala, who is now unemployed, said the department had always transferred them from one organisation to the next when contracts changed, but did not do so this time. Moreover, the workers who signed contracts with Anova claimed they were only paid from the date they signed, although they had worked from the start of May, and they wanted their full month stipend.
- Read the full original of the report in the above regard by Vincent Lali at GroundUp
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