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GALLERY: Tzaneen’s dam workers go on strike

The contract workers of the Department of Water and Sanitation construction site in Tzaneen have been conducting lunchtime picketing for about two weeks over termination of employment letters.

April 30, 2017

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Dam workers protesting outside the Department of Water and Sanitation Concstruction site Tzaneen, over termination of employment letters. Photo Bertus de Bruyn.

They were supposed to be the ones conducting the raising of the Tzaneen Dam wall and the Nwamitwa Dam but they claim the contracts have been given to private contractors.

On Friday, April 7 they protested and blocked the gates of the Tzaneen (DWS) construction site.

The dam workers protesting outside the Department of Water and Sanitation Construction site in Tzaneen. Photo Bertus De Bruyn

Dam workers protesting over termination of employment letters outside the Department of Water and Sanitation in Tzaneen. Photo Bertus de Bruyn.

Mothiba added that their artisans and foremen’s are without jobs because of the privatisation.

Dam workers blocking the gates of the Deaprtment of Water and Sanitation in the Tzaneen Construction site. Photo Bertus de Bruyn.

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April 30, 2017

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