Vat Alles leaves everything and downs tools
Workers protest over wages outside municipal offices.
Hundreds of disgruntled Vat Alles clean-up campaign workers downed tools and protested outside the Centurion municipal offices on Monday afternoon.
Vat Alles supervisor Sam Maleka said the protest was to pressure the metro into paying the Vat Alles workers what they regarded as a full wage.
“Workers are paid R2100 a month, but are actually supposed to receive R3500 a month. What happens to that other R1400?”
He said the Vat Alles workers were also protesting against what they described as corruption within the Tshwane metro.
“Our money is being wasted on Nicki Minaj (in reference to the failed Tribe One Festival) and smart electricity meters. This is unacceptable,” said Joel Mphahla, one of the protesters.
During the protest, one of the disgruntled workers was hit in the stomach by a rubber bullet, allegedly fired by a police officer.
Mphahla said the protest would continue until Tshwane mayor Kgosientso Ramokgopa had addressed them.
Mayoral spokesperson Blessing Manale said the city was aware of their grievances, adding that no plans had been made for the mayor to speak to the protestors.
The workers have been employed on a contract basis by the metro under the expanded public works programmer of the government.
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