BL Premium reports that workers at the ANC’s headquarters, Luthuli House, have called for the party’s national policy conference scheduled for next week to be postponed over the nonpayment of staff salaries for June.

At two separate meetings of staff and management, the ANC’s full-time employees questioned why the party had money for a conference but not for salaries. The conference, which is scheduled to take place at Nasrec in Gauteng on 29 July, is expected to be attended by thousands of delegates. The governing party has been struggling on-and-off to pay staff salaries on time since 2019. The party is in financial ruin, with mounting debts to SA Revenue Service and nonpayment of membership contributions to employees’ retirement funds. Several ANC personnel confirmed that salaries had been paid up to end-May, but not for work done in June. Keith Khoza, head of the ANC’s treasurer-general’s office, said the conference would not be delayed. “We are doing our best to raise the money for salaries,” he indicated. Political analysts agree that a postponement of the conference would be a disaster in terms of the party’s succession debate.

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