SOUTH Africa is experiencing one of the worst droughts in decades. Every day consumers are threatened with fines for wasting water.
But here on the South Coast millions of litres of precious water went to waste last week because Ugu staffers embarked on illegal protest action.
For almost an entire day (20 hours) water spouted from a meter in Marburg.
Are there no other plumbers in the area that Ugu can call? Surely it would be cheaper in the long run for the municipality to get a plumbing company to go and repair the leak instead of waiting for a day before its own staff managed to fix it.
How can a municipality not have a Plan B to fall back on.
In an ideal world the Ugu staff who were `protesting’ instead of working should be the ones to pay for the wasted water. However, ours is not a perfect world so the ratepayers will no doubt have to cough up for this mess up.
Please can the municipality ask its spokesman France Zama to use ordinary words to describe what was basically a strike instead of saying “management engaged with union leadership to ascertain the underlying causes for such actions by employees”.
Jobs are as scarce as hen’s teeth these days – but those who are lucky enough to be employed seem to spend more time protesting than working. This was very evident a few months back when staff at a beachfront restaurant in Margate went on strike.
If only they had served patrons with as much energy and enthusiasm as they did while dancing and waving placards – they would have been well-tipped by happy customers.
IRRITATED
Shelly Beach
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