THE CITY of Johannesburg has condemned gun violence involving two Pikitup trucks during the unprotected workers’ strike.
The city released a statement expressing shock at the shooting of two Pikitup vehicles travelling along Rand Show Road in the early hours of Wednesday morning. The trucks collided and the drivers of the vehicles left the scene. No one was wounded during the shooting and security officers who were assigned to protect the trucks called for backup.
Speaking to workers in Nasrec, shortly after the shooting incident, Johannesburg Executive Mayor Parks Tau said he was shocked that “striking Pikitup workers were resorting to deadly criminal tactics and intimidation in a bid to prevent the City’s attempts to deliver services to residents during their illegal strike”.
The mayor said the City was finalising collaboration plans with various law enforcement agencies, including the SAPS, to ensure that the delivery of Pikitup services continues safely and perpetrators are brought to book.
Pikitup workers have been on strike since April 7 after a go-slow. They are demanding an investigation into allegations of corruption, nepotism and irregular tenders.
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