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SowetanLive reports that swindled apartheid-era Venda municipality employees have yet to get justice because the state fears processing their pension claims would trigger a flurry of demands among former homeland workers.
In November 2011, former public protector (PP) Thuli Madonsela's investigation concluded that former members of the Venda Pension Fund were victims of the state's maladministration and should be paid out. Pre-1994 and before the Government Employees Pension Fund came into effect, they lost all their retirement money during the amalgamation of the Venda Pension Fund and the First Privatisation Scheme. In a new special report, the new PP Busisiwe Mkhwebane has directed finance director-general Lungisa Fuzile to implement Madonsela's 2011 remedial action. He has to submit an action plan to her and National Assembly speaker Baleka Mbete within six weeks. A consolidated list of complainants places their number at approximately 7,000.
- Read this report by Bongani Nkosi in full at SowetanLive
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