The amount of damage to infrastructure caused by this strike is said to be close to R4 million.
eThekwini municipality’s Mobeni water reservoir – towards the south of the metro – was “bombed” in the early hours of Saturday morning, according to city manager Sipho Nzuza.
The Durban central business district was brought to a standstill on Tuesday and Thursday as about 3 000 municipal employees – most of them from the waste unit and affiliated to the South African Municipal Workers’ Union – gathered at city hall. The employees have been protesting the city’s alleged unilateral salary upgrade of about 53 newly hired uMkhonto weSizwe military veterans in the waste unit at pay grades vastly higher than the rank and file staff.
“[The bombing] happens after we have communicated clearly to the aggrieved workers that we are taking the [salary dispute] to the central bargaining council because we do not have any jurisdiction over it,” said Nzuza.
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