World Cup security guards strike spreads in South Africa
More than 1,500 South African security personnel abandoned their posts on Monday in five of the football World Cup stadiums, amid allegations of pay below agreed rates
Security guards at the stadiums in Durban, Cape Town, Port Elizabeth, and Soccer City, the main World Cup stadium on Johannesburg's outskirts, appear to have been cheated by the South African security company which hired them.
The contracts the company signed with them said they would be paid £130 per shift, but their first payment, which they received Monday, was only £17 per shift.
The South African police pulled more than 1,000 police officers from other World Cup-related security duties to replace the striking security guards
