SAMWU Tshwane Region take its Battle to the Streets

29 April 2015
The South African Municipal Workers Union (SAMWU) Tshwane Region will on, 30 April
2015, hold a march in Pretoria to the Office of the City Manager to protest the employers failure
to meet and maintain workers conditions of service.
SAMWU had long been raising issues related to non-provision of PPE including workers being
made to drive unroadworthy vehicles, intention by the employer to outsource or lease power
stations and unilateral restructuring. Recently the employer has been selling municipal land
contrary to governments intention to redistribute land to the previously disadvantaged. Racism
has been manifesting in various forms within the City especially at Wonderboom Airport,
Groenkloof Nature Reserve, Rietvlei Nature Reserve and within Electricity Department. Workers
have on numerous occasions reported incidences of racial discrimination and the employer is very
slow to act on such. SAMWU will also be marching to demand that there should be transformation
in some departments.
Discipline is applied inconsistently and also along racial lines. White employees caught for serious
fraud cases are given final written warnings whereas black workers caught for minor cases are
dismissed. SAMWU has tried on numerous occasions to bring these matters to the attention of the
employer without success.
In protecting our City from being annexed by reactionary forces and parties, SAMWU will fight
and restore the centrality of the working class and the poor in Tshwane
The details of the march are as follows:
Date

: Thursday, 30 April, 2015,

Time

: 09:00

Gathering point

: Old Putco Depot, Marabastad

Destination

: ISIVUNO building, corner Lillian Ngoyi and Madiba

Mpho Tladinyane

Nkhetheni Muthavhi

Regional Secretary

Regional chairperson

083 941 5888/082 328 3413

072 378 5044/073 3759 645