Workers: Mayor must go
2009-09-07 20:11
Pretoria - Angry municipal workers threatened to evict the mayor of Moses Kotane, Peter Molelekeng, from the municipal house in Mogwase near Rustenburg, North West police said on Monday.
Constable Botshelo Mothutsane said the crowd went to the mayoral house in Unit 2, in an attempt to evict the mayor, but found that the gates were locked.
"We dispersed them peacefully and now they are at the municipal offices waiting to be addressed by members of the ANC provincial task team [PTT]," he said.
He said police were monitoring the situation.
Workers' spokesperson Gladys Nokoane said the workers were not happy about the "conduct" of the mayor.
"We do not want him in the municipality, the ANC must discipline him," she said.
Promised buses
Nokoane said the mayor denied the workers transport to the funeral of an employee in the former Transkei in the Eastern Cape, on Friday.
"At the memorial service the municipality promised to provide buses, but on Friday the mayor instructed the transport department not to release a bus," she said.
By 18:00 a member of the provincial task team had arrived and was speaking to workers, she said.
"Depending on the outcome of the meeting we may not work tomorrow [Tuesday]. We want him out, we are sick and tired of his arrogance," she said.
On Monday, Nokoane said, the mayor went from office to office to check whether all workers who went to the funeral had reported for work.
"Some workers went to the funeral after the municipal manager personally paid for their transport," she said.
- SAPA