The Citizen reports that after months of non-payment by their former employer, Khanyi Dhlomo, the employees who previously worked for Ndalo Media have banded together to take legal action against the businesswoman in pursuit of the money owed them.  

A statement to that effect was issued by the collective on Monday.  Ndalo Media, which used to own Destiny, Destiny Man, and Elle magazine, among others, shut its doors in January 2019 after allegedly digging itself into a financial hole.  Among the company’s many debts was R13-million owed to its printers.  Staff were not paid their November salaries on the 25th of that month and were instead paid their November salaries on 6 December.  Meantime, Legend Manqele of The Bar Group announced this past weekend that his company had acquired two of the defunct Ndalo publications, Destiny and Destiny Man.  A large number of Ndalo’s former employees then came forward to explain that they had not yet been paid the severance packages that Dhlomo had signed off on before blindsiding them by liquidating the company.  Additionally, a smaller contingent of employees claim to have been re-employed for two months under a new entity called Ndalo TME, but that attempt failed and they were allegedly not compensated for the two months of work they put in during that period.  Dhlomo is rumoured to have moved abroad.

• Read the full original of the report in the above regard by Kaunda Selisho at The Citizen

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