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SAMWU to meet over Joburg metro police chief’s return to work

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As appeared on the Eyewitness News website, written by Rahima Essop.

Eyewitness News repoted that Johannesburg metro police officers will give municipal workers’ union SAMWU a mandate this morning, on whether to accept Chris Ngcobo’s return to work.

Ngcobo returned as the city’s metro police chief on Monday, almost two months after he it was found he did not have a case to answer to in relation to allegations of corruption and misconduct levelled against him by SAMWU.

SAMWU PRESS STATEMENT.

JOHANNESBURG 02 October 2009.

SAMWU has been very disturbed by a story printed in today’s Sowetan
entitled ‘Calls for Transformation and Office Relocation’. In this
story there are statements allegedly made by the Unions Gauteng
Provincial Secretary Comrade Vincent Venna where he has said to have
made statements about the racial composition of the Unions head office
staff.

Comrade Vincent Venna has categorically denied that he made such
statements to the Sowetan.

Picture; South African Police Services.

SAMWU PRESS STATEMENT.

JOHANNESBURG 02 October 2009.

The South African Municipal Workers Union (SAMWU) is extremely troubled by the actions of the South African Police Services (SAPS) in relation to legitimate industrial and social protests. The recent events in Standerton, Mpumalanga where police opened deadly fire on service delivery protesters is a case in point.

We ourselves are all too familiar with the inadequacies of service delivery. Our members on the ground know and experience the frustration of the poor. It is entirely consistent with the ideals of a democratic society for the poor to protest and collectively raise their demands. That is why SAMWU supports those campaigning for an increase in services, and will continue to urge the government to make good on its promises to deliver them.

Cosatu defends street trashing

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Cosatu defends street trashing

By Carien du Plessis

Municipal workers have defended and justified the trashing of streets as a tactic to counter the employers' "provocation", while Cosatu leaders insisted that such violent action "has no place in our struggles".

Some delegates also came to the workers' defence, saying the littering and trashing was not violence but a labour weapon, blaming the police for provocation.

SA Municipal Workers Union (Samwu) deputy president Boss Nxu told the congress yesterday that the affiliate was unhappy that Cosatu seemed to be supporting "police brutality" rather than defending the union.

‘Samwu will eject mayor’

Sowetan Newspaper.

‘Samwu will eject mayor’

18 September 2009
Kingdom Mabuza.

The SA Municipal Workers Union says it will campaign for the removal of Ekurhuleni mayor Ntombi Mekgwe unless she acts in favour of their demands.

Mekgwe will meet Samwu today to address their concerns about the striking waste collectors in Thembisa .

Koena Ramotlou of Samwu said yesterday that the municipality must cancel the waste collectors’ contract and reinstate the striking workers.

SAMWU is not going to accept that crooked BMW winner Tsheko Maloma take sole responsibility.

Questions still remain unanswered.

SAMWU PRESS STATEMENT.

JOHANNESBURG 17th September 2009.

SAMWU has learned with dismay about the handing over of a sleek new
BMW to Sekhukhune District Municipality in Limpopo by the Assets
Forfeiture Unit, before investigations were completed and those
responsible for negligence taken to task.

We are not going to accept that Tsheko Maloma should take sole
responsibility for the outcome of the case in question because the
Municipality was not only aware of the absurd bill but was also
notified when the 3G datacard account was hovering at around R151
411.70. Due to carelessness the Municipality chose not to investigate
the matter until it was too late and the account was sitting at R277
484.

Tsheko Maloma worked for the Greater Sekhukhune District Municipality
in Groblersdal and in November 2007, he stole a Vodacom 3G datacard
from the Municipality. He then went on to use the datacard to enter
the Vodacom 100 Cars competition, Maloma entered the competition
thousands of times and eventually won a brand new BMW 320i.