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ANA reports that a Pikitup employee was gunned down in Johannesburg on Friday and another one critically injured after SA Municipal Workers’ Union (Samwu) members clashed with union officials’ bodyguards.
Samwu’s deputy provincial secretary, Nonceba Mbilini, indicated that Samwu members had convened at the union headquarters to get feedback about the state of the organisation as well as progress the union had made since calling off a month-long unprotected strike in April. Mbilini said Samwu members, who wanted to go inside the building to attend the meeting, clashed with “unidentified” security personnel at the building’s entrance who were privately hired in May to protect the union’s national office bearers. Mbillini said a shop steward from the Rooderpoort depot was shot and died on the scene while another Pikitup employee was wounded and taken to hospital. She accused the union’s national office bearers, especially the president Pule Molalenyane, of abusing workers’ contributions by hiring private security which turned against the very same workers. Police have made arrests of five or six “hit men”.
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