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Independent Media reports that the salary woes being experienced by the ANC have pushed the party to find innovative ways to raise funds, including crowd-funding.
The ANC staff downed tools on Thursday over non-payment of salaries and vowed to remain on strike until their demands were met. ANC national spokesperson Pule Mabe noted on Thursday at a media briefing that the party was experiencing financial challenges and commented as follows: “The treasurer-general is looking at various models and innovative ways of organising resources, including crowd-funding, because under these conditions we are taught to also change ways of how we do our own thing. We are confident that the kind of fundraising approach that is being looked at will take the ANC out of the current problem we find ourselves in.” Related to the cutting of staff, Mabe said this had to do with the whole organisational design, and also checking whether or not there were redundancies and making sure that people in place could perform the duties required. ANC staff representative committee chair Mvusi Mdala said workers in all of the party’s offices throughout the nine provinces had been forced to take the difficult decision of downing tools. “This is due to the hardline attitude taken by management to continuously disregard concerns raised by staff members during a nationwide picket in June this year. Management made numerous undertakings, both verbally and in writing, to address some of our demands by the end of August 2021,” said Mdala. He indicated the past few months had been difficult, and that members had been suffering.
- Read the full original of the report in the above regard by Ntombi Nkosi at Independent Media
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