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EWN reports that the Emfuleni Local Municipality claims that service delivery has not been affected by the non-payment of salaries to its employees.
Municipal workers, who were meant to be paid on the 25 September, are still waiting to be remunerated. This after Eskom attached the municipality’s bank accounts for failing to pay the utility for electricity supply. The municipality is unsure of when its municipal workers will receive their September salaries. Some employees have apparently stopped working, citing that they don’t have money to commute or fill up their cars to drive to work. Despite this, Emfuleni spokesperson Makhosonke Sangweni claimed that service delivery was unaffected and stated: “We can’t say service delivery has been affected because people who must receive water are receiving water. So that should tell you that we do have service delivery.” But, a municipal worker told a different story: “Services are disrupted. There is no service delivery now as we speak because of the situation.” The municipality is now engaging with the National Treasury in the hope that it will step in to assist.
- Read the original of the short report in the above regard by Alpha Ramushwana at EWN
- Read too, Umdoni Municipality placed under administration, at SABC News
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