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News24 reports that ANC deputy secretary-general Jessie Duarte has revealed the party does not have ghost workers but "old" employees who have been on the organisation's payroll for a while.
But, the party said it would review the matter and ensure it had staff members who did a full-time job. Duarte added the ANC was in the process of doing a second internal staff audit and indicated as follows: “Over the years, when terms of officials at various levels have ended, we have chosen not to terminate the staff of office bearers, because this was the right thing to do.” Fifteen days into the new month, the party only advised on Tuesday that staffers had received confirmatory SMSes that their May salaries had been deposited. Duarte said the salary cash flow problems the party faced were a result of many challenges, including the implementation since April of the Party Political Funding Act, as well as an urgent need to modernise operational and funding models. “The difficult situation faced by the staff and ANC as a movement will require sober and decisive actions. We are going to conclude the process of addressing the situation head-on within the shortest space of time," Duarte indicated. Her remarks came in the wake of a picket disgruntled ANC staffers outside Luthuli House in Johannesburg over various issues, including not receiving their salaries on time.
- Read the full original of the report in the above regard by Pule Letshwiti-Jones at News24
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