/ 12 April 1999

NO HALT TO iGOLI 2002

THE Greater Johannesburg Metropolitan Council said on Thursday it is to continue with its implementation of the Igoli 2002 restructuring programme — despite demands by the South African Municipal Workers’ Union for an immediate halt to the plan. Samwu said the plan has been hatched without any consultation with the city’s poor, and violates a national agreement on municipal restructuring concluded last year. Councillor Kenny Fihla said, however, that the union repeatedly failed to engage the council on the Igoli 2002 plan, and never wrote to the council to express problems with its content.