Tshwane head administrator Mpho Nawa announced on Friday that all services that had been affected by unrest will return to normality. This comes after weeks of labour unrest precipitated by the outstanding payment of benchmarking monies to municipal workers.
Nawa told Gauteng News the metro had reached an agreement with the union to pay its municipal workers at the end of this month.
“Both the employer and labour have agreed that workers will be paid the first tranche of the benchmarking monies for the 2017/18 financial year, at the end of August 2020, while the payment for the 2018/19 financial year, will be made before the end of 2020,” said Nawa.
Nawa hailed the breaking of the impasse as a “win-win situation” for all parties involved in the dispute.
“We have agreed to roll-up our sleeves to clear the backlog in service delivery occasioned by the labour unrest and remove the filth and litter across all the city’s regions. All the services that had been affected by the unrest will return to normal with immediate effect,” Nawa said.
Nawa stated that last month the Tshwane metro has paid its workers the annual wage increment of 6.25%, amid financial constraints. He added and express regret to the troubled residents.
“We really want to apologise to the residents of Tshwane for the inconvenience that we’ve caused to them. From now onwards we should be able to provide better and quality services as promised.” Nawa said.
