Johannesburg – Police fired rubber bullets to disperse striking construction workers blocking the entrance to the site of Eskom’s Medupi power station in Limpopo on Thursday, a police spokesperson said.

More than 220 000 metal and engineering workers led by Numsa downed tools on Tuesday, demanding higher wages.

“A few hundred workers were blocking one of the entrances to Medupi power plant and we had to use rubber bullets to disperse them,” said spokesperson Ronel Otto.

Reuters