Lungile Ntimba
About 100 guards, who are members of the South African Cleaners, Security and Allied Workers Union (SacSaawu) have been camping outside the Gauteng Health Department office for over 12 weeks after their contracts ended.
The guards were employed to look after various healthcare sites across the province, and have been sleeping in the heart of the city since the beginning of April in protest over their dismissal and lack of severance pay, they said.
SacSaawu Secretary-General Andries Potsane said their dismissal allegedly came after the union handed over a memorandum of demands to the department and letters to the MEC complaining about the exploitation of security officers and cleaners.
“We handed over a memorandum to the Department of Health. We wrote letters to the MEC complaining about the exploitation of our security officers, and then we found out that the Department of Health decided to terminate the contract
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