South Africa: Strike Turns Nasty as Protestors Surround Hospitals

Johannesburg — After a day that saw Natalspruit Hospital virtually shut down by strikers, Thursday's action has already effectively shut a number of medical facilities while armed strikers chased learners through a KwaZulu-Natal town

Strikers have threatened nurses and even patients at Natalspruit Hospital, shut down Helen Joseph hospital in Johannesburg, and closed off Weskoppies psychiatric hospital in Pretoria.

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