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Striking public servants in Gauteng were urged to report to picket lines at hospitals and schools at 6.30am to keep up their demand for a higher than offered pay increase.
Joe MpiSi from the National Education Health and Allied Workers Union said: "All the hospitals must be closed tomorrow and people must be at the picket lines at 6.30am" at the conclusion of a march through Johannesburg yesterday.
"All the clinics in the township must be closed. All schools in Soweto must be closed. This strike can only come to an end if all our members respond to this call," he said.
He also called on union members to identify anyone who had been drinking alcohol during Thursday's march because "we want everybody to behave. We are fighting a genuine cause."
Debbie Raphuti from the Democratic Nurses Organisation also said people with cars should be at Mary Fitzgerald Square at 10am for a convoy to an as-yet unnamed destination.
Earlier on Thursday they marched to various government departments in a push for a better pay increase. Their unions decided on a "preliminary rejection" of government's offer.
