TimesLIVE reports that African National Congress (ANC) staff intend to embark on a nationwide picket next week over the governing party’s failure to pay salaries on time.

The party is in financial trouble, with mounting debts to SA Revenue Service (Sars) and non-payment of contributions to its provident and pension funds. By 5 June, ANC staffers had not received their May monthly salaries. It was reported last month that the ANC owed Sars at least R80m in PAYE deductions it had not passed on to the tax collector. The party was also in arrears by at least 28 months — about R140m — on its provident fund contributions. However, according to staffers, all of these monies had been deducted from salaries. Staff members have now decided to embark on a nationwide picket to air their frustrations, party spokesperson Pule Mabe indicated on Wednesday. “After repeated challenges of late salary payments, ANC staff will picket on June 15 at Luthuli House and all provincial and regional ANC offices in protest. Though staff were informed that officials are attending to the ANC cash flow challenges, the feeling of grievance about their conditions of employment has reached critical point,” Mabe said.

• Read the full original of the report in the above regard by Kgothatso Madisa at BusinessLive
• Read too, ANC pleads for three-month extension to sort out finances, but workers are ready to down tools, at News24

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