The Citizen reports that Mbuyiseni Ndlozi, spokesperson for the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF), has dismissed a report by The Sowetan newspaper that the party’s bank account had been frozen by the Labour Court after the party unfairly dismissed a former researcher in the Limpopo legislature.  

Ndlozi took to Twitter on Monday to rubbish the report, saying the account “is not and has never been frozen.  The order was challenged and never went into any function.  We can pay anyone from that account [sic]”.  Advocate Fenya Maabane apparently challenged his dismissal by the EFF at the CCMA, which ruled that his removal was 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 Sowetan reported that, following several legal attempts to effect payment of the money, the EFF’s FNB bank account in Braamfontein was attached on 21 February.

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