The Citizen reports that the SA Municipal Workers’ Union (Samwu) and the City of Tshwane are at loggerheads over who should take responsibility for the attack on a municipal employee on Sunday.

Gauteng Samwu’s Mpho Tladinyane demanded that the city should take responsibility for the attack in which the employee, who is also a member of the union, was shot. Noting that an employee of the city and Samwu member had been accosted and shot at by individuals who robbed him of the municipal vehicle he had been travelling in,” city manager Johann Mettler said of the attack: “This incident is deplorable, and we plead with law enforcement to find the suspects, lock them up and throw the keys away. We will not cower in the face of intimidation by thugs. If the perpetrators are found to be our employees they will be booted out of the employ of the city.” Meanwhile, Tladinyane said Samwu would continue to use all avenues at its disposal to ensure that the city complied with the SA Local Government Bargaining Council (SALGBC) salary and wage collective agreement. “We will be opposing this frivolous and vexatious (exemption) application by the city in the SALGBC later this month,” he said. City spokesperson Selby Bokaba reported that city had filed the salary and wage increases exemption application at the SALGBC last Thursday. It is waiting for the application between the city, Samwu and the Independent Municipal and Allied Trade Union to be heard at the council next week.

• Read the full original of the report in the above regard by Marizka Coetzer at The Citizen (subscriber access only)

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