Pretoria News reports that cracks have started to show between the DA-led coalition government and ActionSA in Tshwane as a municipal strike continues to cause havoc across the capital city.

ActionSA, part of the coalition government, has threatened to take the matter to the management committee to intervene and has called on mayor Cilliers Brink to go back to the negotiation table with the striking workers. The party has accused Brink of going back on the 2021 agreement between the city and the workers that pay increases would be implemented. Some employees affiliated to the SA Municipal Workers’ Union (Samwu) have been on strike, demanding a wage increase, and the action has left the city with uncollected refuse and other service delivery issues. Visiting communities affected by the strike last week, ActionSA’s national chairperson Michael Beaumont and Gauteng chairperson Funzi Ngobeni assessed the extent of service delivery breakdown arising from the strike action. Ngobeni said: “Refuse has not been collected, grass has not been cut, power station repairs are taking longer and we are nowhere close to a solution. Throughout this period, ActionSA has called on the City and the workers to return to the negotiation table and find a solution for the current impasse.” He added that their position was often misconstrued, with many criticising their stance on the strike: “Many are saying we are destabilising the current coalition government or even defending the vandalism of public property … that is simply not true.”

• Read the full original of the report in the above regard by Mashudu Sadike at Pretoria News
• Read too, DA hits back at ActionSA as Tshwane coalition crumbles, on page 8 of Saturday Star of 30 September 2023
• En ook, Tshwane-staking: ActionSA wys vinger na DA, by Maroela Media

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