The South African Police Service (SAPS) on Thursday used rubber bullets to disperse striking Nehawu members at the entrance to Chris Hani Baragwanath Hospital as violence and intimidation continued to accompany the health workers’ strike.
About five members of the National Education, Health and Allied Workers’ Union sustained injuries and were taken to the Chris Hani Baragwanath Hospital in Soweto for treatment after police used rubber bullets to disperse striking workers at the hospital’s main entrance.
“We have embarked on an indefinite strike action which started on Monday, 6 March,” Lehlohonolo Tseeke, a shop steward at the Bheki Mlangeni District Hospital in Soweto, said from the hospital entrance on Thursday. Giving an update on what to expect for the day, Tseeke said at 12 noon at the Public Service Coordinating Bargaining Council , the employer would meet the four trade unions which rejected the 3%: Nehawu, the South African Policing Union , the Democratic Nurses Organisation of South Africa and the Police and Prisons Civil Rights Union .
“Now we want to register again that our strike is peaceful. We are not beating people. We are not intimidating anyone. Employees decide on their own volition to join our forces out there.”
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