Cape Town — The National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (NUMSA) has threatened to conduct a 48-hour strike if Road Accident Fund (RAF) CE), Collins Letsoalo is not removed from office.
The strike is against the outsourcing of critical operations, the alleged violations of the Protection of Personal Information Act and the suspension of 200 fraud-accused claims handlers, among other issues, EWN reported.
The union is planning a national shutdown by marching to at the fund’s offices this week.
“We will march to the offices of the National Department of Transport in Pretoria to hand over a memorandum of demands to the Minister of Transport, Sindisiwe Chikunga, listing all the problems at the organisation.” NUMSA spokesperason, Phakamile Hlubi-Majola, said.
NUMSA accused Letsoalo of incompetence and mismanagement within the company and demanded that he be removed from his position as CEO due to the disastrous state of the entity, IOL reported.
NUMSA also said that letsoalo thought he was “untouchable” which led to RAF’s demise.
“There is a complete failure to regulate his behaviour, and it seems even the board of the RAF is helpless in the face of his gross incompetence,” it said.
We must also state that Letsoalo is so arrogant that he even blocked Parliament’s oversight committee, Scopa, from entering the RAF premises at the Menlyn offices last year when MPs went to the workplace to conduct inspections,” it said.
NUMSA said it resorted to the strike to compel the State to intervene and remove Letsoalo, adding that he was destroying the RAF.
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Compiled by Matthew Petersen
