Satawu leaders under attack
2013-03-14 21:32
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Johannesburg - The lives of leaders of the SA Transport
Workers Union (Satawu) was under threat, the union said on Thursday.
"There... is a hitlist that includes the names of
four Satawu provincial secretaries, the general secretary [Zenzo Mahlangu],
deputy general secretary and our current president," said spokesperson
Vincent Masoga.
Police had been notified about the hitlist, he said.
Masoga said there had been "systematic" and
violent attacks on the union's leadership since last year.
"In the past three weeks three of our most active
and hard-working shop-stewards based at Prasa have been attacked in their homes
with petrol bombs thrown into their houses."
Masoga said general secretary Zenzo Mahlangu's house was
attacked by a gang of "heavily armed thugs" who mistakenly went to a
neighbour's house first and there demanded to see a "Satawu man”.
"Fortunately, Mahlangu was not home when they
finally got to his house. Police have established that the gangs had been
acting on instruction with an intention to harm and possibly assassinate him
[Mahlangu]."
Most workers in the rail sector faced intimidation and
train services were generally "destabilised" by some of the
perpetrators, he said.
- SAPA
