ANC staff members are picketing outside the NGC over delayed payment of salaries. ANC employees were filled with fear, annoyance, and desperation on Monday as they staged a picket outside the party’s 5th National General Council (NGC) in Boksburg. They warned that their families might have a difficult Christmas as a result of unpaid and persistently delayed salaries.
Collen Malatji, the president of the Youth League, demanded immediate accountability from the Treasurer-General and top leadership, demonstrating their frustration with the ANC’s highest office-bearers. ANC employees, some of whom have gone months without pay, gathered at the gates of Birchwood Hotel holding placards and chanting for the “right thing”. For many, the crisis has grown deeper than late salaries, it has become a matter of survival.
“We’re going to hold everyone accountable,” Malatji said in a fiery address. “Why are the workers of the ANC not being paid? They’ve got families to take care of.
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They must buy clothes, they must prepare for December. We cannot be eating while ANC workers and their children go hungry.” Nombuso Mthembu, one of the leaders of the picket, said the salary crisis has become unbearable. Inside the venue, the party’s leadership pressed ahead with political discussions. Outside, staff accused the ANC of failing its own employees for years.
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