A prolonged strike by the South African Municipal Workers’ Union (Samwu) has severely hamstrung waste management and cleaning services in a city, leaving residents living among filth and facing water and electricity outages.
A car passes under the bridge at the Connaught Bridge Interchange, in an industrial area near the polluted uMngeni River. What was once a small recycling plant has become a dumping ground.
Photo: Des Erasmusdemeanour during a media briefing this week about the crippling strike that has left the city’s residents living among filth — amid water and electricity outages — arguably did not convey the required urgency in righting the myriad wrongs in a crumbling metro of which he is the political head. While Kaunda spoke, secondary roads in the metro remained littered with oozing rubbish bags that have attracted flies, bees and rats, the result of a prolonged, violent strike by the South African Municipal Workers’ Union (Samwu) that has severely hamstrung waste management and cleaning services across the metro, and left one person dea
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