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The Star reports that ANC staff say they will remain on what their representatives have labelled a “full-blown stayaway” from party offices due to their employer’s failure to meet contractual obligations, including the party’s inability to pay salaries.
According to ANC staff representative Mvusi Mdala, “Luthuli House, Western Cape, Free State and North West had not received salaries for January, while in the North West there were staff members who had last received salaries in October”. He added: “We will be on stayaway until every staff member is back paid their salaries. If tomorrow (Wednesday) every staff member is paid up, and not even a single one is owed his or her salaries, we will reconvene as staff and see what we do.” Following the ANC’s NEC meeting over the weekend, media reports indicated that the party’s national spokesperson and NEC member Pule Mabe had suggested that the ANC should retrench staff members to ease the financial burden on the party. Mdala commented: “That (retrenchments) is a non-starter. I think Pule Mabe is just becoming a populist on the approach on this, and also we've noted that when it’s convenient for him, he speaks as a person who’s affected by the non-payment of salaries for opportunistic reasons.” Mdala also called for the ANC to prioritise paying the staff’s provident fund contributions, which he said had last been paid over to the fund in November 2018, and to also pay UIF, which has not been paid for about four years. Mabe said that it was unfair that he was being singled out as an individual NEC member when it had been the NEC that had reached consensus on the issue of organisational redesign, which also included retrenching staff.
- Read the full original of the report in the above regard by Samkelo Mtshali at IOL
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