TheCitizen opinion: One of the most callous statements yet uttered by union leader, WC provincial secretary Baxolise Mali: The employer says people are dying. It is not our responsibility to keep people’s lives.” Click here ➡️
as a direct result of the withdrawal of labour and services by protesters – shows unions have grown bloated and grotesque under the patronage of the ANC.
The protesters are, they seem to forget, already a privileged sector in South African society. They actually have jobs.With unemployment at well over 30% and with many struggling to feed their families, the demands of unions for a 10% pay hike, while most workers are getting less than half that, is unfeeling and greedy.
Yet, unions and other protesters have discovered that violence – and even deaths, like those of the unfortunate patients entrusted to these heartless “carers” – is one way to get something out of the government.Phaahla has promised that government legal teams will look at possible action, including bringing criminal charges against those involved in the violence and, at the very least, they will be disciplined internally.
None of that, though, will help comfort the families of those who have, effectively, been murdered by health workers who turned their backs.
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