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News24 reports that trade union federation Cosatu's march to demand that City of Tshwane employees be paid wage increases turned sour on Friday afternoon because the City Manager could not accept a memorandum due to an unruly crowd.
Around 1,000 Cosatu and affiliate union members marched to both the National Treasury and Tshwane House. At Treasury, the union handed over a memorandum addressing budget cuts in public spending. Once the marchers arrived at Tshwane House, they sought to hand over a memorandum to the mayor of Tshwane, Cilliers Brink, demanding salary increases and that that employees who were dismissed because of the recent strike be reinstated. Brink, however, did not come out to accept the memorandum. According to his spokesperson, Brink had been ready to accept the memo at 12:00, as had been arranged with Cosatu, but “by 13:20, the march still had not arrived at Tshwane House, and the mayor had to leave to attend to another prearranged engagement." The City manager, Johann Mettler, was then tasked to accept the memo. But he abandoned the task after the police nyala he arrived in was stormed by a group of marchers. Cosatu management then calmed the crowd down, read out the memo of demands and claimed that Brink did not respect "black workers".
- Read the full original of the report in the above regard by Alex Mitchley at News24
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