DEAR Editor,-
I write to express my utter disgustat the manner in which the recent Ugu strike was conducted. While I fully support the right of workers to organise, bargain for better working and remuneration conditions and, in most cases, withhold labour when unsuccessful, but this right does not – or should not apply when peoples’ lives, health or safety is at stake.
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This deplorable and despicable strike, with its concomitant sabotage, not only endangered peoples’ lives and safety but also did irreparable harm to our reputation and economy on which all our welfare depends. Communities from which the strikers come should make every effort to identify and ostracise the culprits and the religious leaders should condemn their actions from their pulpits as being in violation of the second great commandment, namely ‘that we shall love our neighbours as ourselves’.
OLLIVER RANSOME
Margate
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