GATVOL ANC STAFF PICKET OVER UNPAID SALARIES

FEAR, frustration and desperation gripped ANC werkers yesterday as they picketed buite the party's 5th National General Council (NGC) in Boksburg, warning that unpaid and chronically delayed salaries may result in a bleak Christmas for their families.

- BY KAMOGELO MOICHELA

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Their frustration now extended to the ANC's highest office-bearers, with Youth League president Collen Malatji demanding immediate accountability from the Treasurer-General and top leadership.

ANC employees, some of whom have gone maande without pay, gathered at the gates of Birchwood Hotel holding plakkate and chanting for the “right thing”.

For many, the crisis has grown deeper than late salaries, it has become a matter of survival.