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Cabinet approved the suggestion by President Cyril Ramaphosa to nominate the Cuban doctors who helped South Africa in the fight against COVID-19 the last few months.
Sadtu general secretary Mugwena Maluleke said that the findings, if left unchallenged, could lead to a situation where Treasury could at any point pull out of wage agreements with employers in the state.
Health Minister Zweli Mkhize on Thursday announced the first 1 million doses would be delivered later this month from the Serum Institute of India, followed by an additional half a million doses in February.
The union said it had hoped the Provincial Command Council would provide answers on how Gauteng planned to tackle the expected increase in COVID numbers. However, the briefing scheduled for Thursday was postponed indefinitely.
Gauteng is predicted to experience a significant spike in COVID-19 infections as the January wave is expected to hit the province as holidaymakers return home.
The National Education, Health and Allied Workers’ Union warned that hospitals did not have the capacity to deal with the influx of patients with the virus.
The private medical health scheme announced last month that it will fund a COVID-19 vaccine for two million of its members.
The union has slammed Health Minister Zweli Mkhize's vaccine roll-out plan, saying it lacked details and was very ambiguous.
The union said the plan announced by Health Minister Zweli Mkhize night did not set out a clear logistical roll-out for vaccination.
The union has held marches in parts of the country to demand that the workers be permanently employed.
The union wants government to give workers the benefits that all other government employees have.
Workers affiliated with the union are expected to go on a nationwide strike on Thursday demanding government permanently employ workers and pay all government benefits.
The union held a briefing where they announced they would be leading the nationwide marches by community healthcare workers on Thursday.
The union's general secretary, Zola Saphetha, said that the union would march this coming Thursday when the Health Council was meeting.
The strike started on 5 October at the NSFAS offices in Cape Town following a negotiation deadlock.
The National Education Health and Allied Workers' Union (Nehawu) has accused Carollisen of mismanaging the R35 billion state-funded scheme for marginalised tertiary students.
While the union says the NSFAS administrator has mismanaged the fund, Randal Carolissen said there was evidence that the opposite was true.
Nehawu took issue with NSFAS administrator Dr Randall Carolissen, who they accused of mismanaging the institution.