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SowetanLive reports that the Labour Court in Johannesburg has ordered the freezing of the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) party's bank account after it failed to pay a former employee who was dismissed two years ago but who won a case against his dismissal.
Adv. Fenya Maabane, the party's former researcher in the Limpopo legislature, was dismissed from work in 2015 on allegations of absenteeism and failure to attend to official duties. He challenged the decision through the CCMA, which found his dismissal to have been unfair "both procedurally and substantively". The CCMA ordered that Maabane be paid a salary equivalent to seven months’ pay, amounting to more than R400,000. The party was given until February 2016 to settle the amount, but failed to do so. Unsuccessful attempts at seizure of assets followed, eventually resulting in the EFF's account, held at the First National Bank branch in Braamfontein, being attached on 21 February 2017. After the attachment, the EFF applied to the CCMA for rescission of an earlier judgment against it, but this was dismissed as being out of time. Apparently the party is still using its bank account and has filed for condonation of its late application to the CCMA.
- Read this report by Frank Maponya in full at SowetanLive
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