Gallo Records employees have hardly gone on strike in support of their suspended colleagues and the situation is already turning ugly.
Two Soweto homes belonging to members of Gallo management have been fire-bombed.
Thirty-one employees have been suspended by the company. They said their colleagues were planning to go on a sympathy strike in support.
By Kingdom Mabuza and Sibongile Mashaba for the Sowetan Online.
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NVDL: Pray that this doesn't become de rigeur in South Africa. You lay off a worker (due to a shrinking economy) and then revenge crimes follow.
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Just read your post about the Gallo employees. I have a friend who laid off some people from a feed mill in Piet Retief that wasn't producing the goods because of these guys. Two of them came to his house one night to kill him and he was shot 8 or 9 times (organs punctured etc.) and survived. He even drove himself to the local police station. He would make a great story if you wanted to interview him - he has an incredible lust for life and this incident was his 3rd near-death experience (second one was being stuck in a walk-in refrigerator on a farm in Mpumalanga). The guys were caught and are still in prison I think. It would really make a fab story. We visited him as a family in the hospital in Nelspruit and I got so sick in the hospital room from seeing him in that state and realizing the evil it must have taken to do that to him, that I had to leave the room.
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