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Municipal workers protest outside Durban City Hall

They demanded higher wages, performance bonuses and shift allowances, and called for the City manager to resign

EThekwini municipality workers picket outside Durban City Hall to demand their salaries be increased. Photo: Tsoanelo Sefoloko
About 100 eThekwini municipality general workers from different departments picketed outside Durban City Hall on Thursday. They were demanding that their salary grade be increased from category eight to ten. They also wanted to be paid performance bonuses and shift allowances, and called for the City manager to resign.
The protesters said they are not being represented by a union.
The workers displayed posters and sang. Sibusiso Sithole, employed by the water and sanitation department at the Ottawa depot, said he started working for the municipality in 2018. He said he was tired of earning less than his counterparts at other metros.
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