Protesting Jobless Doctors Say 20 Posts Are Not Enough to Get All of Them Hired

South African unemployed doctors launch 3rd sit-in - Workers Revolutionary Party

SOUTH African unemployed doctors have been protesting once again, launching their third sit-in of the year outside KwaZulu-Natal’s Office of the Premier on Monday morning, demanding that provincial posts be advertised immediately. Thamsanqa Zakwe and Nosihle Hlophe, members of the organising committee for the sit-in, said previous protest actions had failed to deliver the desired outcome – namely, the posting of jobs and meaningful engagement wi…

Protesting jobless doctors say 20 posts are not enough to get all of them hired

The group of unemployed medical doctors that had been camping outside the offices of the KwaZulu-Natal government in Pietermaritzburg says the 20 posts made immediately available are not enough to get all of them hired. The doctors say the provincial government should do more, as public hospitals desperately need their services. The physicians said this in a statement sent to Sunday World after publicising their sit-in and plight on Wednesday mo…

New posts for jobless doctors after protests - Juta MedicalBrief

KwaZulu-Natal Health MEC Nomagugu Simelane announced yesterday that the department would be opening up 20 posts for unemployed doctors and advertising them within the next seven days – this after a sit-in by protesting jobless medics outside the KZN premier’s office in Pietermaritzburg since Monday. The frustrated doctors had staged their third protest this year outside the Office of the Premier, demanding that provincial posts be advertised imm…