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"contents": "<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">On Monday, the Labour Appeal Court interdicted with immediate effect the strike action by the National Education, Health and Allied Workers’ Union (Nehawu). The court also restrained Nehawu and its members and workers employed at the South African Social Security Agency (Sassa), the Special Investigating Unit (SIU) and the South African National Biodiversity Institute from continuing with the strike.</span>\r\n\r\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1606381\" src=\"https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/ED_439333.jpg\" alt=\"nehawu cape town\" width=\"720\" height=\"413\" /> Nehawu members protest at the Barrack Street Home Affairs office in Cape Town on 13 March 2023. (Photo: Gallo Images / Misha Jordaan)</p>\r\n\r\n<i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Read more in</span></i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Daily Maverick: </span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">“</span></i><a href=\"https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2023-03-13-labour-appeal-court-orders-nehawu-to-inform-members-of-strike-interdict-or-face-legal-consequences/\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Labour Appeal Court orders Nehawu to inform members of strike interdict or face legal consequences</span></i></a><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">”</span></i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> </span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Lwazi Nkolonzi, Nehawu’s national spokesperson, acknowledged the ruling. “Our legal team is studying that judgment and we will be meeting with them later this evening and we will deliberate on the way forward,” he said.</span>\r\n<h4><b>Gauteng</b></h4>\r\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-1606383 size-full\" src=\"https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/ED_439474.jpg\" alt=\"nehawu leratong\" width=\"720\" height=\"429\" /> People are granted access to Leratong Hospital in Krugersdorp, Gauteng, amid the Nehawu protest on 13 March 2023. (Photo: Gallo Images / Papi Morake)</p>\r\n\r\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1606378\" src=\"https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/ED_439460.jpg\" alt=\"nehawu pimville\" width=\"720\" height=\"448\" /> Nehawu members protest at the Department of Education D14 District office in Pimville in Soweto on 13 March 2023. (Photo: Gallo Images / Fani Mahuntsi)</p>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Minister of Health Dr Joe Phaahla</span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> visited </span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Thelle Mogoerane Regional Hospital in Vosloorus, where army officials were stationed outside and at least 20 military nurses were deployed because of shortages caused by the strike. </span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Phaahla revealed last week that there had been four deaths as a direct result of the strike, but that the number could be higher.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">“We are getting more [numbers]. I can tell that we are not standing at four [reported deaths]. We want to be cautious with accuracy. We are currently getting all clinical data. At this stage, there are more than four [deaths] that we have received,” he said.</span>\r\n\r\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1606363\" src=\"https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/ED_439445.jpg\" alt=\"nehawu baragwanath\" width=\"720\" height=\"439\" /> Nehawu Members protest at Chris Hani Baragwanath Hospital in Soweto on 13 March 2023. (Photo: Gallo Images / Fani Mahuntsi)</p>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There were reports of peaceful picketing and a police presence at the main gate of Chris Hani Baragwanath Hospital in Soweto. </span>\r\n<h4><b>Free State</b></h4>\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Mondli Mvambi, the spokesperson for the Free State Department of Health, confirmed there had been no fire on Monday at Pelonomi Academic Hospital in Bloemfontein, despite the municipal fire department responding to an anonymous tip-off of a blaze at the hospital’s linen bank. </span>\r\n\r\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1606403\" src=\"https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/3f58ab33-ac65-4b6e-92ca-19b65ebcf19f.jpg\" alt=\"nehawu pelonomi\" width=\"720\" height=\"456\" /> The Bloemfontein fire department responded to an anonymous tip-off of a blaze at Pelonomi Hospital’s linen bank, but it turned out the call was a hoax. Above, firefighters examine the aftermath of an unreported fire at the linen bank that happened last Monday, 6 March. (Photo: Supplied)</p>\r\n\r\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1606408\" src=\"https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/767d4c64-6b6e-4cba-a0e0-9637e4e74a96.jpg\" alt=\"nehawu pelonomi\" width=\"720\" height=\"427\" /> Clean linen is delivered to Pelonomi Hospital, Bloemfontein, Free State, after linen had been set alight on 6 March 2023. (Photo: Supplied)</p>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">“We can assure the public that indeed a fire did occur at this place about a week ago. We are told that [it was] on Monday... 6 March… but no one reported that,” he said. The hospital received fresh linen today.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">“We do, however, suspect that it is a prank aimed at causing confusion and panic as has been the norm throughout the strike,” Mvambi said.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There were no reports of disruptions at the</span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> hospital on Monday. It had been a frequent target last week. </span>\r\n\r\n<i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Read more in </span></i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Daily Maverick: </span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">“</span></i><a href=\"https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2023-03-08-patients-discharged-from-free-state-hospitals-at-a-frantic-rate-while-interdict-stalls-a-total-shutdown/\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Patients discharged from Free State hospitals at a frantic rate while interdict stalls a total shutdown</span></i></a><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">”</span></i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> </span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Mvambi said the department would keep a close eye on the situation at Pelonomi.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There was minimal absenteeism at Universitas Academic Hospital in Bloemfontein where the situation was calm.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">“We have also been updated that earlier today there were opportunistic acts of disruption at Universitas Referrals and Maternity [departments]. 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This is a victory for the innocent, vulnerable and non-unionised patients who have suffered the consequences of the disruptive and violent strike action,” said the department. </span><b>DM/MC</b>",
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"description": "<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">On Monday, the Labour Appeal Court interdicted with immediate effect the strike action by the National Education, Health and Allied Workers’ Union (Nehawu). The court also restrained Nehawu and its members and workers employed at the South African Social Security Agency (Sassa), the Special Investigating Unit (SIU) and the South African National Biodiversity Institute from continuing with the strike.</span>\r\n\r\n[caption id=\"attachment_1606381\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"720\"]<img class=\"size-full wp-image-1606381\" src=\"https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/ED_439333.jpg\" alt=\"nehawu cape town\" width=\"720\" height=\"413\" /> Nehawu members protest at the Barrack Street Home Affairs office in Cape Town on 13 March 2023. 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(Photo: Gallo Images / Papi Morake)[/caption]\r\n\r\n[caption id=\"attachment_1606378\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"720\"]<img class=\"size-full wp-image-1606378\" src=\"https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/ED_439460.jpg\" alt=\"nehawu pimville\" width=\"720\" height=\"448\" /> Nehawu members protest at the Department of Education D14 District office in Pimville in Soweto on 13 March 2023. (Photo: Gallo Images / Fani Mahuntsi)[/caption]\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Minister of Health Dr Joe Phaahla</span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> visited </span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Thelle Mogoerane Regional Hospital in Vosloorus, where army officials were stationed outside and at least 20 military nurses were deployed because of shortages caused by the strike. </span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Phaahla revealed last week that there had been four deaths as a direct result of the strike, but that the number could be higher.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">“We are getting more [numbers]. I can tell that we are not standing at four [reported deaths]. We want to be cautious with accuracy. We are currently getting all clinical data. At this stage, there are more than four [deaths] that we have received,” he said.</span>\r\n\r\n[caption id=\"attachment_1606363\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"720\"]<img class=\"size-full wp-image-1606363\" src=\"https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/ED_439445.jpg\" alt=\"nehawu baragwanath\" width=\"720\" height=\"439\" /> Nehawu Members protest at Chris Hani Baragwanath Hospital in Soweto on 13 March 2023. (Photo: Gallo Images / Fani Mahuntsi)[/caption]\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There were reports of peaceful picketing and a police presence at the main gate of Chris Hani Baragwanath Hospital in Soweto. </span>\r\n<h4><b>Free State</b></h4>\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Mondli Mvambi, the spokesperson for the Free State Department of Health, confirmed there had been no fire on Monday at Pelonomi Academic Hospital in Bloemfontein, despite the municipal fire department responding to an anonymous tip-off of a blaze at the hospital’s linen bank. </span>\r\n\r\n[caption id=\"attachment_1606403\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"720\"]<img class=\"size-full wp-image-1606403\" src=\"https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/3f58ab33-ac65-4b6e-92ca-19b65ebcf19f.jpg\" alt=\"nehawu pelonomi\" width=\"720\" height=\"456\" /> The Bloemfontein fire department responded to an anonymous tip-off of a blaze at Pelonomi Hospital’s linen bank, but it turned out the call was a hoax. Above, firefighters examine the aftermath of an unreported fire at the linen bank that happened last Monday, 6 March. (Photo: Supplied)[/caption]\r\n\r\n[caption id=\"attachment_1606408\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"720\"]<img class=\"size-full wp-image-1606408\" src=\"https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/767d4c64-6b6e-4cba-a0e0-9637e4e74a96.jpg\" alt=\"nehawu pelonomi\" width=\"720\" height=\"427\" /> Clean linen is delivered to Pelonomi Hospital, Bloemfontein, Free State, after linen had been set alight on 6 March 2023. (Photo: Supplied)[/caption]\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">“We can assure the public that indeed a fire did occur at this place about a week ago. We are told that [it was] on Monday... 6 March… but no one reported that,” he said. The hospital received fresh linen today.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">“We do, however, suspect that it is a prank aimed at causing confusion and panic as has been the norm throughout the strike,” Mvambi said.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There were no reports of disruptions at the</span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> hospital on Monday. It had been a frequent target last week. </span>\r\n\r\n<i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Read more in </span></i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Daily Maverick: </span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">“</span></i><a href=\"https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2023-03-08-patients-discharged-from-free-state-hospitals-at-a-frantic-rate-while-interdict-stalls-a-total-shutdown/\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Patients discharged from Free State hospitals at a frantic rate while interdict stalls a total shutdown</span></i></a><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">”</span></i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> </span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Mvambi said the department would keep a close eye on the situation at Pelonomi.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There was minimal absenteeism at Universitas Academic Hospital in Bloemfontein where the situation was calm.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">“We have also been updated that earlier today there were opportunistic acts of disruption at Universitas Referrals and Maternity [departments]. The strikers allegedly trashed the ward and tried to force working personnel out, but this failed as soon as security personnel were activated,” Mvambi said.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Fezi Ngubentombi Provincial Hospital in Sasolburg was picketed by strikers, but officials and patients were granted access to the facility. </span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Striking workers gathered peacefully at National District Hospital in Bloemfontein, which was adequately staffed despite the strike. </span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Services ran smoothly at Bongani Regional Hospital in Welkom, despite the theatre department experiencing multiple absences attributed to sick leave. “Managers are putting mitigating measures in place for business continuity and patient care,” said </span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Mvambi.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There were no strikers at the gates of Mofumahadi Manapo Mopeli Hospital in QwaQwa, where most employees were back at work. Free State Medical Depot also had no reported strike activity, with officials at work.</span>\r\n<h4><b>North West </b></h4>\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Nurses were on duty at Tshepong Hospital in Klerksdorp. However, they reportedly received WhatsApp messages from striking staff threatening to come in to remove them. There were also reports that strikers were outside, but not blocking staff or patients from accessing the hospital. The hospital has received military assistance. </span>\r\n<h4><b>Eastern Cape</b></h4>\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There were reports of limited staff being present at Port Elizabeth Provincial Hospital and the police were onsite monitoring the situation. </span>\r\n<h4><b>Mpumalanga </b></h4>\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There were reports that Phola Nsikazi Clinic in Phola was closed with protesters gathered peacefully outside.</span>\r\n<h4><b>National Department of Health</b></h4>\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The National Department of Health welcomed the court judgment. It said it believed Nehawu would abide by the judgment and inform its members to return to work as soon as possible.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">“We believe this judgment will bring some form of stability to health facilities across the country. 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Nehawu members protest at the Barrack Street Home Affairs office in Cape Town on 13 March 2023. (Photo: Gallo Images / Misha Jordaan)
People are granted access to Leratong Hospital in Krugersdorp, Gauteng, amid the Nehawu protest on 13 March 2023. (Photo: Gallo Images / Papi Morake)
Nehawu members protest at the Department of Education D14 District office in Pimville in Soweto on 13 March 2023. (Photo: Gallo Images / Fani Mahuntsi)
Nehawu Members protest at Chris Hani Baragwanath Hospital in Soweto on 13 March 2023. (Photo: Gallo Images / Fani Mahuntsi)
The Bloemfontein fire department responded to an anonymous tip-off of a blaze at Pelonomi Hospital’s linen bank, but it turned out the call was a hoax. Above, firefighters examine the aftermath of an unreported fire at the linen bank that happened last Monday, 6 March. (Photo: Supplied)
Clean linen is delivered to Pelonomi Hospital, Bloemfontein, Free State, after linen had been set alight on 6 March 2023. (Photo: Supplied)