# The FF Plus has sent a letter to the Mpumalanga premier, Refilwe Mtsweni-Tsipane, and the provincial police commissioner, Semakaleng Manamela, requesting them to urgently intervene in the humanitarian crisis and escalating violence in Middelburg. The party’s provincial leader, Werner Weber, says officials of the Steve Tshwete Local Municipality have been on strike since September, due to their dissatisfaction with the outsourcing of certain services and salary increases. Striking officials are throwing petrol bombs at traffic officers’ homes, garbage is not being removed and the water supply has been sabotaged.