Held hostage until 2am, municipality bosses are told to find money for salaries
‘We can’t work for nothing. If we do not get paid by noon‚ we will close all services until the payments are made’
The South African Municipal Workers’ Union (Samwu) has given the West Rand district municipality until noon on Thursday to sort out the payment of workers’ salaries. Officials in the district municipality were held hostage from Wednesday afternoon until the early hours of Thursday morning over non-payment of workers‚ the union said. The mayor‚ councilors‚ executives‚ managers and supervisors at the Randfontein-based district council‚ west of Johannesburg‚ were among those who did not get their salaries last week Thursday. Municipal workers said that only workers on lower salary scales had received their salaries. Samwu western region secretary Siseko Siyothula told said on Thursday morning that the officials were not allowed to leave council chambers on Wednesday afternoon. “The whole council, including the mayor‚ the municipal manager and executive managers, were held hostage. They were only released at 2am when the municipal manager acceded to providing means to pay all workers by...
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