RAF employees to embark on strike
Workers at the Road Accident Fund are going on strike.
NUMSA-affiliated members have notified the RAF that they'll be downing tools on Thursday over claims of mismanagement at the entity.
"We are mobilising our members for a shutdown of all RAF offices on Thursday…and on that day, we will march to the offices of the National Department of Transport in Pretoria to hand over a memorandum of demands to Minister of Transport Sindisiwe Chikunga listing all the problems at the organisation. We are demanding that RAF CEO Collins Letsoalo be removed because of the disastrous state of the entity," says NUMSA's Phakamile Hlubi-Majola.
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The public entity compensates victims of road crashes.
Hlubi-Majola says their concerns include the outsourcing of call centre operations to private companies, the lengthy backlog of unprocessed claims and apparent POPI Act breaches.
"The RAF is being grossly mismanaged by Letsoalo, who behaves like a law unto himself. Even now, the failure of the RAF to pay out claimants on time means that the assets of the institution are routinely attached by court sheriffs so that they can be sold in order to pay the monies owed.
"As a result, desks, chairs and office equipment are attached. Workers sit on boxes or on the floor when doing their work because there are no desks or chairs. As recently as two weeks ago, a sheriff of the court attached items at the RAF offices in East London."
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