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SABC News reports that the Tswaing local municipality in North West Province is investigating the deaths of two employees who lost their lives on duty on Thursday last week.
The two were reportedly dispatched to unblock a drainage system in Agisanang Township outside Sannieshof. The pair, aged 38 and 53, perished inside a sewage manhole. Municipal spokesperson Osupile Tys indicated, “We have lost two of our employees yesterday who were busy trying to unblock the manhole. I can’t say anything further because we’re busy doing our internal investigation one, number two we’re still waiting for the postmortems and also we’re trying more to have ‘ubuntu,’ to respect the families. So we can’t give anything out. The formal report will detail everything that you need but for now can we please agree that we’re busy doing our internal investigations that will form the part of that formal report I’m referring to.” Meanwhile, the SA Municipal Workers’ Union (Samwu) Provincial Secretary, Vincent Diphoko said such incidents kept recurring. He claimed said there was seemingly no improvement in working conditions, despite the union having previously engaged different municipalities.
- Read the full original of the report in the above regard by Tebogo Phakedi at SABC News
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