Pikitup services disrupted at Zondi depot in Soweto
Pikitup, the waste management entity of the City of Johannesburg, will not be able to render its usual services in areas serviced by the Zondi Depot in Soweto today, 12 June 2019.
This follows a protest demonstration staged outside Pikitup’s Zondi Depot by residents of Ward 46. These protesters are demanding jobs and threating the lives of Pikitup’s employees and assets.
The protesters are preventing Pikitup employees from discharging their responsibility of rendering waste removal service in areas serviced by the Zondi depot. As a result waste removal services cannot be rendered in Chiawelo, Chiawelo 2, Mapetla, Phiri, Molapo, Dobsonville Extension 3, Protea Glen Extensions 8, 9, 10, 14, 20, 26, 27, 29, 31 and Lefhureng today.
Besides the demand for employment from Pikitup, protesters also presented a list of demands and questions on Pikitup’s learnership programme, the employment of Expanded Public Works Programme (EPWP) workers, information about tenders and Pikitup’s supply chain processes, how vacancies are advertised and how they can benefit from recycling services.
Despite Pikitup responding to the questions, protesters continue to disrupt operations at the depot.
Pikitup has since requested the assist of the Johannesburg Metropolitan Police Department (JMPD) to restore order before normal waste collection services can resume in the area.
Pikitup apologizes for the inconvenience caused and is appealing to the affected residents to dispose of their waste at its garden sites while is it addressing the issue.
For media queries, kindly contact:
Muzi Mkhwanazi
Pikitup Spokesperson
muzimkhwanazi@pikitup.co.za
071 312 7757
