REFILWE MEKOA
Moqhaka Municipality workers have reached an agreement with the task team investigating their grievances and have allowed the municipal manager and other managers to continue working.
According to Morena Thebe, they want the investigation team to continue with their task, though it seems like a slow pace. The Free State Department of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs (COGTA) assigned a task team last month, to investigate Moqhaka municipal workers’ feuds, which resulted to a standstill of service delivery.
COGTA’s Head Of Department Victor Duma says they are close to finalising their investigations.
“There are quite a number of things that the team has discovered. This morning though, we were reliably informed that employees again have gone on strike and want the municipal manager and director of cooperative services to go away. We encourage them not to get involved in any illegal activities because we are attending fully to their concerns and by next week we will have the full report. From there the MEC COGTA Olly Mlamleli will table the report with the recommendation to the executive council and they will definitely be implemented,” says Duma.
A court order was submitted and warned disgruntled employees that legal action will be taken if they illegally protest or don’t go back to work. Workers were protesting over alleged misuse of municipal finances.
