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EWN reports that employees of the West Rand District Municipality gathered at the Mary Fitzgerald Square in Johannesburg on Wednesday, calling on the office of the Gauteng premier to deal with their grievances.
They claimed not to have been paid for the past three months. Last month, workers held councillors hostage demanding their salaries be paid. According to the workers, this was the third month they have not been paid. The Democratic Municipal and Allied Workers Union of SA (Demawusa) said they don’t believe that the municipality has no funds to pay workers. The municipality invested R77 million in the embattled VBS Mutual Bank. Spokesperson Ayanda Yawua said: “To our surprise when the municipality does not have money but it invested with VBS an amount of R77 million so, we are just wondering why the municipality invested but claim that they don’t have money.” Yawua admitted that it was not a legal march, but said many of those protesting were breadwinners who could not continue to work for free.
- Read the full original of this report by Katleho Sekhotho at EWN
- See too, West Rand workers still not paid in full, at eNCA
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