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Pretoria News reports that the cash-strapped City of Tshwane is losing millions of rand because of the ongoing strike action by employees over wage increases.
The metro’s budget has been further stretched by the damages to buildings, infrastructure damages and the torching of municipal buildings as a result of the unprotected strike. Other costs the municipality has had to incur includes overtime payments to metro police officers to escort workers to job sites. Municipal employees have over the past few months been involved in a dispute with management over a 5.4% pay increase that the City has refused to pay, citing severe financial difficulties. Addressing the media last week, mayor Cilliers Brink, along with city manager Johan Mettler, said the violent nature of the strike had cost the municipality. But the duo could not say how much exactly the strike had cost the City and could only confirm that the bill was running into millions of rand. Municipal spokesperson Selby Bokaba indicated that in due course the City would calculate the full cost of the strike. He added that the City had been forced to increase contractors since the beginning of the strike. “The budget of contracting services would be under severe pressure due to the frequency in which the contracted services are being used,” he warned.
- Read the full original of the report in the above regard by Mashudu Sadike at Pretoria News
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