/ 31 January 1999

BEIT BRIDGE STRIKE OVER

A STRIKE by staff at the Beit Bridge border post between South Africa and Zimbabwe, which caused a backlog of hundreds of trucks, ended late on Thursday night. All of the 110 workers at the border post stopped working for most of Thursday afternoon over dissatisfaction with affirmative action and an alleged lack of progress in transformation at the border post office. South African Revenue Services spokesperson Christo Henning said the strike was resolved when an agreement was reached between SARS management and the National Education, Health and Allied Workers’ Union. The strike was also not planned, and therefore illegal, he said.