MORE than 40000 Popcru-aligned police administrative staff, including 10111 emergency call-centre operators, who staged a countrywide strike yesterday, could face internal disciplinary actions, the South African Police Service announced yesterday.
MORE than 40000 Popcru-aligned police administrative staff, including 10111 emergency call-centre operators, who staged a countrywide strike yesterday, could face internal disciplinary actions, the South African Police Service announced yesterday.
National police spokesman Brigadier Phuti Setati said this was because the strike was unprotected.
Setati said the SAPS invoke the no work, no pay principle.
Limpopo police spokesman Brigadier Hangwani Mulaudzi echoed Setati's warning about the ramifications of engaging in an unprotected strike, saying: "Those who take part will have their salaries docked and might even face a disciplinary hearing."
Protesters blew vuvuzelas and waved placards with protest messages, decrying what they described as "apartheid" in the SAPS.
Of these, one protester carried a placard whose message urged President Jacob Zuma to talk to his police minister or lose votes in 2014, which read: "Zuma, if you do not talk to [Nathi] Mthethwa you are going to lose votes come 2014."
Others attacked National Police Commissioner Riah Phiyega.
Protesters in Cape Town also carried messages that did not hide their anger.
Among the messages on the protesters' placards were: "Top management must adhere to agreement or face war. Away with low wages."
Meanwhile, one protester missed his former national police commissioner, holding up a placard reading: "Bheki Cele, we wish u come back."
Police and Prisons Civil Rights Union (Popcru) spokeswoman Theto Mahlakoana has said that its members in all provinces, except Mpumalanga, had taken to the streets yesterday.
The protesters are demanding that the SAPS honour an agreement to change their salary grades and institute separate career planning for operational and administration staff.
Staff were protesting over the safety and security sectoral bargaining council agreement signed in 2011, which had apparently not yet been implemented.
In Cape Town, Cosatu officials acted as marshals as hundreds of Popcru members marched down Adderley Street in the city centre, on their way towards the provincial police building in Green Point.
In Bloemfontein, the protesters disrupted traffic as they marched in the CBD, where they were expected to hand a memorandum to Free State provincial commissioner Lieutenant-General Khehla Sithole.
In Limpopo, more than 50 officers and administrative workers from Thohoyandou joined the march by 300 protesters in Polokwane.
40000 cops face action
MORE than 40000 Popcru-aligned police administrative staff, including 10111 emergency call-centre operators, who staged a countrywide strike yesterday, could face internal disciplinary actions, the South African Police Service announced yesterday.
MORE than 40000 Popcru-aligned police administrative staff, including 10111 emergency call-centre operators, who staged a countrywide strike yesterday, could face internal disciplinary actions, the South African Police Service announced yesterday.
National police spokesman Brigadier Phuti Setati said this was because the strike was unprotected.
Setati said the SAPS invoke the no work, no pay principle.
Limpopo police spokesman Brigadier Hangwani Mulaudzi echoed Setati's warning about the ramifications of engaging in an unprotected strike, saying: "Those who take part will have their salaries docked and might even face a disciplinary hearing."
Protesters blew vuvuzelas and waved placards with protest messages, decrying what they described as "apartheid" in the SAPS.
Of these, one protester carried a placard whose message urged President Jacob Zuma to talk to his police minister or lose votes in 2014, which read: "Zuma, if you do not talk to [Nathi] Mthethwa you are going to lose votes come 2014."
Others attacked National Police Commissioner Riah Phiyega.
Protesters in Cape Town also carried messages that did not hide their anger.
Among the messages on the protesters' placards were: "Top management must adhere to agreement or face war. Away with low wages."
Meanwhile, one protester missed his former national police commissioner, holding up a placard reading: "Bheki Cele, we wish u come back."
Police and Prisons Civil Rights Union (Popcru) spokeswoman Theto Mahlakoana has said that its members in all provinces, except Mpumalanga, had taken to the streets yesterday.
The protesters are demanding that the SAPS honour an agreement to change their salary grades and institute separate career planning for operational and administration staff.
Staff were protesting over the safety and security sectoral bargaining council agreement signed in 2011, which had apparently not yet been implemented.
In Cape Town, Cosatu officials acted as marshals as hundreds of Popcru members marched down Adderley Street in the city centre, on their way towards the provincial police building in Green Point.
In Bloemfontein, the protesters disrupted traffic as they marched in the CBD, where they were expected to hand a memorandum to Free State provincial commissioner Lieutenant-General Khehla Sithole.
In Limpopo, more than 50 officers and administrative workers from Thohoyandou joined the march by 300 protesters in Polokwane.
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