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News24 reports that Tuesday brought eThekwini metro residents more service delivery woes when workers attached to the extended public works programme (EPWP) downed tools and staged a picket outside Durban City Hall, calling for higher salaries and permanent absorption into the municipality.
The EPWP workers are deployed to various service delivery departments, including Durban Solid Waste (DSW), Parks and Recreation, and eThekwini Electricity. The Municipal and Allied Trade Union of SA’s (Matusa’s) Thokozani Maxhagwe, who led Tuesday's demonstration, said there were workers who have had temporary contracts with the municipality for more than 10 years. He clarified that the demonstration was separate from ongoing strike action by city staffers aligned with the SA Municipal Workers' Union (Samwu), which started on 27 February. He also claimed that the EPWP employees had previously taken their plight to the CCMA, and it had ruled that workers must be absorbed permanently by the municipality. But, the municipality has filed a rescission application. The picket on Tuesday followed an earlier demonstration by a group of students aligned with the EFF Student Command (EFFSC). As of Tuesday afternoon, uncollected rubbish continued to pile up on several roads throughout the eThekwini metro and residents still complained about unattended water and power outages. EFF KZN chairperson Mongezi Twala said while they supported Samwu's strike action, they did not condone the infrastructure damage and poor service delivery that had characterised the workers' demonstrations.
- Read the full original of the report in the above regard by Nkosikhona Duma at News24
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