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IOL reports that the SA Municipal Workers’ Union (Samwu) in the Northern Cape says that hundreds of workers at Thembelihle Local Municipality have not been paid their January salaries.
According to the union, the municipal manager and chief financial officer resigned late last year and as a result the municipality had no officials to sign off salary payments. The municipality is run by a coalition of the EFF, DA, Community Forum and FF+, which came to power in November 2021. In a statement on Thursday, Samwu said: “The municipality which covers areas such as Hopetown, Orania and Strydenburg has for the last four months been on autopilot, without executive leadership which has resulted in limited service delivery and more worryingly, the non-payment of workers’ salaries for the month of January. […] Workers at the municipality had as a result not received their January 2023 salaries, while third parties such as medical aid and pension fund payments had been in arrears for over a year.” Samwu called for the municipality to be placed under administration by the provincial government. “The current councillors have proven to be hopelessly unable to fulfil their duties and as such, an administrator should be appointed to oversee the general administration of the municipality. If needs be, the municipality should be dissolved, and fresh elections held to elect people who have the interests of workers and residents at heart,” the union said.
- Read the full original of the report in the above regard by Sihle Mavuso at IOL
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