Protest over contracts and pay
The National Health and Education Allied Workers Union (Nehawu) and the Grahamstown and Port Alfred Community Health Care workers held a peaceful march from Joza Location, via Fingo Square, to hand over a memorandum to the Makana District Office of Health on Tuesday.
The memorandum was read by Nehawu’s Max Madlingozi and regional secretary Siyabonga Kobese. It demanded that Community Health workers be employed full time with immediate effect for as long as there is a need for them to render the services they do, as public servants.
“You cannot continue to engage workers on a monthly contract basis, therefore we demand that these workers be absorbed to be full time government employees and paid decent salaries,” it read.
The memorandum further
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