Central SA
Protesting Mangaung workers to be paid on Friday─── LUCKY NKUYANE 08:07 Wed, 27 Apr 2022
The troubled Bloemfontein-based Mangaung Metro Municipality has broken its silence and responded to allegations of non-payment by irate workers.
According to the municipality’s spokesperson, Qondile Khedama, the Metro’s management - led by the Acting City Manager (ACM) Tebogo Motlashuping - on Tuesday held a meeting with labour representatives.
He says a commitment was made to pay workers’ outstanding salaries by Friday.
Protests erupted at the Metro’s offices on Tuesday, with hundreds of irate workers protesting over the non-payment of their salaries.
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The protest at the Metro comes just weeks after the National Minister of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs (Cogta), Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, placed the ailing metro under National Government's control for failing to handle its financial affairs.
This, after being placed under administration at the end of 2019.
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Workers, mostly from the Solid Waste Treatment Plant, on Tuesday morning blockaded all entrances to the Metro's premises. These disgruntled workers dispersed piles of solid waste in front of the Metro's premises, including small rocks. According to workers, some of them received as little as R100 or R46 in their bank accounts this morning.
"When the national intervention team started with their duties last week, one of the issues they encountered was documents left unattended from as far back as February 2022," Khedama adds.
