More than 300 municipal workers have embarked on an industrial strike that has resulted in the disruption of municipal services in Kimberley and surrounding areas.

On Monday the angry workers littered the Kimberley CBD and municipal offices after a failed attempt to deliver a memorandum of grievances to municipal officials.

South African Municipal Workers Union (SAMWU) provincial secretary Duma Lebakeng says they have resumed the strike after the municipality failed to honour an agreement to permanently employ all contract municipal workers.

“This march is only to display our dissatisfaction as members of SAMWU at the Sol Plaatje municipality around issues that are still outstanding and that are not implemented by management up until to today [Monday].”

“We are hopeful that the management will implement whatever we want them to implement,” Duma says.
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