Pretoria motorists have been cautioned to use alternative routes as the Police and Prisons Civil Rights Union (POPCRU) will embark on a march to the Union Buildings on Tuesday, 20 September.
POPCRU is demanding the implementation of all signed collective agreements, salary and danger allowance increase, and access to a portion of pension funds before retirement.
PRETORIA STREETS AFFECTED BY TUESDAY’S MARCH
The Tshwane Metro Police Department (TMPD) said marchers will gather from 09:00 at an open space in Kgosi Mampuru Street and Madiba Street, Pretoria Central.
The route of the march is as follows:
From open space at Kgosi Mampuru Street and Madiba Street, they will join Madiba Street and proceed straight until they reach Union Buildings.
The following intersections will be affected:
- Kgosi Mampuru Street
- Sophie de Bruyn Street
- Bosman Street
- Paul Kruger Street
- Thabo Sehume Street
- Lillian Ngoyi Street
- Sisulu Street
- Du Toit Street
- Nelson Mandela Drive
- Steve Biko Road
- Hamilton Street
- Government Avenue
The members of the union are expected to disperse from Union Buildings at 15:00.
TMPD spokesperson, Superintendent Isaac Mahamba said officers will be deployed to monitor the march and all affected streets.
Mahamba also advised motorists to avoid affected streets and use alternative routes such as:
- Nana Sita Street
- Francis Baard Street
- Stanza Bopape Street
- Struben Street
WHAT IS THE POPCRU MARCH ABOUT?
The union said following numerous engagements and consultations with its structures across the country, they came to a decision to take to the streets in demonstrating long-held dissatisfactions with the snail’s pace manner in which worker issues, especially within the criminal justice cluster, have been handled by the employer.
POPCRU’s memorandum of demands to both the National Treasury and the Presidency will among other things speak to issues related to the following:
- Employment of more members in SAPS, DCS & Traffic
- Police killing and attacks on Correctional Officers
- Rising levels of violent crimes
- The absorption of all Private Prisons to DCS
- Non-implementation of all Signed Collective Agreements
- Increases in all Danger Allowances
- The provision of Tools of Trade in all Departments
- The nationalisation of Traffic
- The implementation of a Housing Scheme
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