Rubber bullets fired at Pikitup strikers
JOBURG - It is believed that police have used tear gas and rubber bullets during the Pikitup strike.
According to reports, some protesters at the Pikitup strike in the Joburg CBD have been left bleeding, following action taken by the police, firing rubber bullets and using tear gas on the crowds.
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View some tweets below:
https://twitter.com/MrNeoMotloung/status/669090968726016000
https://twitter.com/fistvoices/status/669087996080205828
https://twitter.com/MrNeoMotloung/status/669065564715905024
https://twitter.com/MrNeoMotloung/status/669082752965300224
Braamfontein being reminded of how it could look like today…😟#SAMWU
— KeleUnofficial (@kele_p) November 24, 2015
According to the Ward 117 cllr, Tim Truluck, “Pikitup have suspended all their services. All the Garden Sites are now closed and workers/drivers there have been threatened. Reports are coming in that bins left in the street are being overturned by the strikers. Please bring your bins inside. Looking to today, it is highly unlikely that Pikitup will be collecting our Monday bins this week. It is nearly impossible to catch up on a whole day of no collections, and the strike is unlikely to be resolved in one day either. And it is looking like the collections for the rest of the week will be affected too.”
