Authorities to study CCTV footage to identify Samwu vandals

The City of Johannesburg and law enforcement officials say they are studying CCTV footage to identify the striking municipal workers who vandalised the Johannesburg Central Business District (CBD) yesterday.

Municipal spokesperson Nthatisi Modigoane says the culprits will be prosecuted. South African Municipal Workers Union (Samwu) members emptied rubbish bins on the streets of the city during a march to hand over a memorandum of grievances to Gauteng Premier Nomvula Mokonyane.

The municipality says trashing the city encroaches on residents' right to a safe and healthy environment. Samwu, will decide today whether to continue the countrywide strike by municipal workers. The strike entered its fifth day yesterday.

Samwu has warned police to refrain from intimidating striking members. This after police fired rubber bullets, injuring a number of workers picketing in front of the union's offices in Port Elizabeth. Samwu Eastern Cape secretary, Siphowo Ndunyana, says this is not a fight between the union and police, and has accuse the municipality of using police to destabilise the strike.

He says more than 15 of their members are in St Georges Hospital because of the police shootings during the strike. Ndunyana has called on the police ministry to define the 'shoot to kill' concept because the striking workers are not criminals.

 

SOURCE: SABC News

 

 

 

 

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