The Kouga Municipality has obtained a court interdict to prevent members of SAMWU from organising and participating in any unprotected strike action. SAMWU has been protesting since Monday and strikers have vandalized Municipal property and trashed the main roads in both Jeffreys Bay and Hankey.
Kouga Mayor Elza Van Lingen says the court order interdicts SAMWU members from destroying or damaging property belonging to the Kouga Municipality as well as prohibiting them from intimidating non -striking employees of the Municipality.
The Municipal office in Jeffreys Bay is open to the public and the roads in the CBD are open to traffic following a clean-up operation. The strikers threw trash and raw sewage on the streets of Jeffreys Bay and around the Municipal building in Da Gama road on both Monday and Tuesday.
The Mayoral Committee of the Kouga Council has will be meeting as a matter of urgency to determine the way forward.
Charges have been laid with the South African Police in regard to Council property being destroyed during the strike.