IOL reports that census field workers in Ekurhuleni have threatened to withdraw their services over lack of payment.

This comes as Statistics SA has allegedly failed to pay salaries to recruited staff members. Apparently, between 25 and 35 field workers have not been remunerated for February. On Thursday, some field workers descended on Stats SA’s offices in Pretoria to deliver a memorandum of demands. Recruit Basetsana Phora, from Brakpan in Ekurhuleni, said that in her area up to 25 to 30 members, including fieldworkers, five supervisors and one field operator, had not been paid and no communication had been forthcoming from authorities. "We have bulletins where we were promised advances. Imagine an advance but you already worked a full month. Even the advance is missing in action," she indicated. Phora added that apart from Ekurhuleni, field workers in Tshwane, Sedibeng and the City of Joburg faced the same dilemma of non-payment. Census campaign regional supervisor Thandeka Nkabinde, from Duduza, said they were experiencing the same problem of non-payment of salaries from Stats SA. Nkanbinde claimed that the matter was national, because even in Limpopo and some parts of Kwazulu-Natal there was the same problem of non-payments.

• Read the full original of the report in the above regard by Kamogelo Moichela at IOL

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