âââ 15:07 Fri, 09 Apr 2021 Photo: Katleho Morapela
Trade unions within the Mangaung Metro Municipality are unwavering they will shut down the municipality within seven days should it fails to heed their call.
The South African Municipal Workers Union (Samwu) alongside the Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) and South African National Civic Organisation (Sanco) demand that Municipal Manager, Tankiso Mea, vacate his office. Hundreds of employees affiliated to the unions took to the streets of Bloemfontein today to express their frustrations. They demand that Mea be suspended pending investigations into his office and that the Council be dissolved. Samwuâs Lucky Sebego, tells OFM News Mea has rendered the municipality dysfunctional, and is at the helm of its service delivery debacles. He says the municipality is in a state of disarray.