News24 reports that calm returned to Msunduzi municipality, Pietermaritzburg on Thursday with workers reporting for duty after they were finally paid their salaries, a day after the normal payday of each month.  

The municipality officially apologised to staff members, the community, and businesses over the non-payment of its staff and gave an assurance that all employees had been paid.  Municipal spokesperson Thobeka Mafumbatha also strongly dismissed suggestions that the municipality was broke.  She indicated that a technical glitch might have triggered the late payment, which resulted in municipal employees being paid a few hours later than usual.  For most of Wednesday, traffic flow was disrupted, the city hall entrance was pelted with raw eggs and council offices were forced to close.  Some businesses in the CBD had to make do with generators after a cut in power supply that was suspected to have been carried out by frustrated employees.

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