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Thabiso Dladla of the Unification Task Force said on Monday they had been asking the government to convene a conference to formalize the sector since 2016, but government leaders have so far not taken that request seriously.
FILE: A pastor reads a passage from the Bible during the funeral of Modise Motlhabane, who died of coronavirus COVID-19, at the Westpark Cemetery in Johannesburg, on July 22, 2020. Image: AFP
DURBAN – Funeral practitioners protesting Monday said the government risked having very little control over the future of the funeral industry, as well as the taxi industry, if it continued to ignore their pleas for greater cooperation.
His strike is scheduled to go into a second day on Tuesday.
Thabiso Dladla of the Unification Task Force, a group representing funeral directors, said they had been asking the government to convene a conference to formalize the sector since 2016, but government leaders have so far not taken that seriously. request.
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The Unification Task Force is made up of associations of funeral professionals, who are currently organizing protests and calling for outsourcing in the sector to be allowed, among other issues.
Dladla said the ongoing protests in the funeral industry came after the failure of previous attempts to get the government’s attention.
“The government has been sending us officials. Officials cannot give us what we want because they are intermediaries. We no longer want to deal with intermediaries, we want to deal with department ministers who are legislators, ”said Dladla.
He said they expected the government to reevaluate its approach to black-owned small, medium and micro businesses in the funeral sector.
The Unification Task Force said that despite its important role during COVID-19, the interests of the funeral industry were not being taken into account.
Muzi Hlengwa of the task force added that they would put more pressure on the government if their demands were not met on Wednesday.
“We will intensify our strike by making sure we shut down the entire country. We have seen the taxi industry do it, we don’t want to turn to it, but we will. So if they don’t listen, we will. This is the cause we are willing to die for. “.
Hlengwa said that her main goal today was to ensure that all funeral practitioners who were still operating closed.
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