Workers employed on contracts during the pandemic say most of their colleagues were given full-time jobs and they want the same
About 50 former community health workers who worked in Ekurhuleni protested outside the Gauteng health department’s Johannesburg office on Tuesday to demand they be re-employed.
The workers say were paid R3,500 a month since late 2021, and some had started work in 2009. They went door-to-door, testing, counselling and creating awareness about HIV/Aids, TB and sexually transmitted diseases. They also referred patients to clinics or hospitals and did Covid-19 screening during the pandemic.
Some of our members died of Covid because we worked even during level 5 of the lockdown. So they thanked us by sacking us. It is unfair.” Zandile Masilela, who said she had worked in the programme in KwaThema since 2009 said it was “painful to see other people working in our place while our families go hungry ... The department should have a heart and give us our jobs back”.
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