ANC staff fear Christmas will be bleak

ANC employees were filled with fear, annoyance, and desperation yesterday as they staged a picket outside the party’s 5th National General Council (NGC) in Boksburg.

- KAMOGELO MOICHELA

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.