ANC branding and flags adorn the Johannesburg Expo Centre. Picture: Michel Bega/The Citizen While the ANC denies it is on the brink of complete bankruptcy, its financial woes run deeper than its public pronouncement, a party source says. The party also claimed that its traditional donors and the middle class it has uplifted were not coming forward because they were reticent to be associated with the party.
In a media briefing yesterday, Mbalula confirmed the ANC’s wage bill was around R20 million but did not say where it got the funding from. He stressed that staff retrenchments were out of the question, despite the party’s financial difficulties. He said his own salary was also delayed as the party’s chief executive officer at Luthuli House.
But political analysts have a different view. They cite the ANC itself as responsible for the situation it is in. Independent political analyst Doctor Tshwale said the ANC’s failure to pay staff salaries is recurring and becoming an Achilles’ heel in the organisation’s functioning.
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The ANC has breadwinners on its payroll and “non-payment is a huge inconvenience to many families. “The inability to pay salaries is a greater sign of the party’s decline, meaning erstwhile funders are deserting it.
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