DURBAN - ANC employees at Luthuli House are expected to have a happy festive season after the party finally paid its employees.
It has been a tearful and tormenting year for the workers who were not paid for months.
The ruling party confirmed on Monday that it had paid some of its staff salaries and was clearing all the outstanding balance due to its workers.
National ANC spokesperson Pule Mabe confirmed that not all the staff had received their salaries on Tuesday. He said those who had not received their money would get it this week.
“We are dealing with the outstanding balances owed to the workers, those who have not yet received their money will definitely get it later today, on Wednesday,” said Mabe.
In February and March, the ANC struggled to pay staff salaries. The same transpired in December 2019, and again in June last year, when the ANC alerted staff that it would not be able to fulfil its obligations to pay salaries on the 25th those months.
On June 23, the party wrote to its employees, committing to pay salaries on July 2. It failed to do so.
In the same month, during staff picketing and the handing over of a memorandum of demands outside Luthuli House in Johannesburg, acting secretary-general Jessie Duarte said the ANC had a plan to manage the outstanding payments that were owing to the Provident Fund, as well as other third party contributions.
The ANC treasurer-general’s office said last month that it was a difficult season to raise funds for the ANC to pay the salaries.
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