The Port Elizabeth High Court granted an interdict in favour of the Nelson Mandela Bay Municipality this afternoon, barring the raucous behaviour of striking municipal waste management truck drivers.
The employees, drivers of the waste management sub-directorate and the South African Municipal Workers Union are interdicted and prohibited from:
- Driving and using any of the municipality’s vehicles unless it is done with the specific consent of the Applicant;
- Blockading any of the municipality’s waste management landfill sites, drop-off centres or the depots;
- Preventing any persons, either on foot or in vehicles, from freely and without hindrance, entering or egressing any of the sites, drop-off centres or depots.
- Threatening, intimidating and/or assaulting any persons entering or egressing from any of the landfill sites, drop-off centres or depots;
- Littering any refuse or waste on public roads or sidewalks.
The interdict is now in the process of being served by the court.
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