ANC staff fearing a bleak Christmas due to unpaid salaries

FEAR, frustration and desperation gripped ANC staff On Sunday as workers picketed outside 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.

- KAMOGELO MOICHELA

Their frustration has 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 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.