
Striking workers clash with police outside hospital
The police became heavy handed as they tried to prevent the strikers from blocking the entrances to Khayelitsha District Hospital.
The police became heavy handed as they tried to prevent the strikers from blocking the entrances to Khayelitsha District Hospital.
The union is appealing an interdict against their strike action and spent the first day rallying workers in Khayelitsha’s public facilities to join the strike.
The finance minister would deny in his speech that he was presenting an austerity budget, but confirmed the expectations of public sector unions and the unemployed who marched in Cape Town against budget austerity.