SEBOKENG.- The main road in Sebokeng, Moshoeshoe Road and others such as Wessels Mota Road were left with less traffic than usual as most workers and school children did not wake up to make it to their different destinations, in observance of the strike. The means of transport for the public that Sedibeng Ster witnessed on the roads was only a couple of taxis, and no busses as the streets were left dry.
Speaking to Sedibeng Ster a taxi driver on the Vanderbijlpark route who was on duty and who wanted to remain anonymous, for obvious reasons, said:
“Eish, we should have just stayed at home. Look now we are going up and down wasting petrol. There are no passengers at all, it is dry my brother.”
For the safety of children, scholar transporters had apparently been warned on Tuesday that they should not take chances of transporting children.
Most schools had also sent WhatsApp messages to parents not to send their children to school, for their safety. Trade unions have shut down the country today, Wednesday, saying that the strike is about enforcing the economic rights of workers and the rest of civil society adding that this meant putting pressure on government to end corruption, while pushing business to reinvest into the economy.
Except the streets being left dry, at the time of going to print no serious activities by the unions in Sedibeng had been reported.
