ANC unable to pay staff salaries – again
The ANC’s financial woes have once again resurfaced, and ordinary staff members are bearing the brunt once more.
The ruling party was not able to pay its salary bill for the month of August, despite it having been scheduled to pay staff their salaries on August 25.
Failure by the governing party to pay its staff their salaries is nothing new. The party was faced with a similar problem in December 2019 and again in June 2020 when it alerted staff that it would not be able to fulfil its obligation to pay salaries on the 25th day of those months.
In a letter to the party’s members from secretary-general Ace Magashule, the party said that it would not be able to pay the salaries of its hundreds of workers across the country, in a repeat of the December 2019 scenario when the party failed to pay its staff salaries after a decline in donor funding.
The letter, dated September 3, 2020, read: “Kindly note that above-mentioned employee won’t be able to fulfil monthly instalments on time this month due to salary delay, payments are pending till further notice.”
Six months after the salary debacle in December, in which staff salaries were only paid after Christmas, the party employees were dealt another blow when they were told they would not receive their salaries for June on the 25th of that month.
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