WATCH: SA man living in Canada shows South Africans how one person collects refuse and drives a solid waste truck
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A video circulating on social media posted by a South African living abroad aims to show South Africans how one person collects refuse and drives the collection truck in Canada, while in SA 'five' are said to be needed. Canadian solid waste worker collects refuse and drives the collection truck in a video circulating on social media, which aims to show South Africans how the Canadians do it. Picture: Screen grab of video.
Durban - A South African man living in Canada recorded a short video of a woman employee of a company in Canada collecting garbage and driving a solid waste collection truck on her own, to show South Africans that the job could be done efficiently with fewer people.
The video has been circulating on social media platforms.
In the video, the man greets the solid waste worker as she collects garbage bags and empties bins from the side of a road in the rain.
He then explains that in Africa, five people are needed to do her job.
“Five on a truck like this,” he reiterated after the woman stopped what she was doing, in apparent shock.
She says: ‘Really, five but I have to drive the truck and load the dirt too. And in the rain.”
In response the man said: “I want to show them how we do it in Canada.”
This comes as eThekwini Municipality workers have embarked on yet another strike.
The city informed residents on Tuesday that waste collection and street sweeping services around eThekwini would be interrupted due to an illegal work stoppage.
The city requested that residents and businesses keep refuse bags and bins inside their properties until the situation is resolved.
At the beginning of August, the city cut overtime by 50%.
A couple of days after the overtime budget was cut The Mercury reported that staff in the Durban Solid Waste (DSW) unit embarked on an illegal go-slow.
This after the city resolved in June that all units must cut their spending on overtime by 50%, and use this amount to fill vacancies instead.
The sweeping and collections unit has 1 400 workers.
In a follow-up report last week, The Mercury reported that one DSW employee managed to triple his salary when he claimed more than 208 hours of overtime pay in one month.
The general worker’s claim was above his normal working hours of 160 hours a month.
According to the report the general worker’s salary, which is about R10 000 a month, went up by an extra R20 000.
