Nappies were sitting in the sun for two weeks. It’s not a great smell

Pikitup has enlisted the help of security guards to protect contract workers who are clearing a backlog of refuse as the four-week strike continues.

Workers at waste management company Pikitup were not on strike but holding a meeting and singing outside the company’s head office, says their union.

Pikitup workers aligned with Samwu are set to embark on an illegal strike, the City of Johannesburg’s waste management entity has announced.

Samwu’s plans to down tools days before the election is ‘in poor taste’, says the ANC.

Union insists there is something rotten about Pikitup’s tender adjudication processes.

There is a "willingness" by both the City of Johannesburg and Samwu to bring the Pikitup strike to an end, a city spokesperson said on Tuesday.

As a strike by refuse workers drags on, the streets of Johannesburg have been turned into a dumping ground.