Patients at one of South Africa’s biggest health facilities have been turned away while motorists have been advised to avoid the area as scores of public servants affiliated to various unions have closed several routes and the main entrance to the facility.
Hundreds of workers marched to the office of the Treasury in the Pretoria CBD on Tuesday afternoon over a wage dispute with government, where they handed over a memorandum of demands to the minister. Minister Thulas Nxesi, though, was met with hostility.