Danél Esterhuysen

Municipal workers of the Capricorn District Municipality (CDM) took to the streets yesterday to demonstrate their dissatisfaction with wages.
According to protestors they demand a 15 % salary increase. Even though the CDM agreed to negotiate a 10 % increase, workers protested throughout the day, even denying a senior Police official entrance to the Police Station. Some protestors even went as far as to sit down in front of the official’s vehicle to keep him from entering Schoeman Street.
Posters reading "6,3% increase se moer, Ons es gatvol, Salaries an insult to the working class," were displayed.
Negotiations between the South African Municipal Workers Union (Samwu) and the CDM are continuing.