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Tswaing municipality staff have been months without pay

Only the highest-earning workers have been paid since April

The Tswaing Municipality has not paid many employees since April. Photo from Tswaing Municipality’s website.

An employee at Tswaing municipality says he is “going hungry” and relying on family for essentials.
More than 100 workers have not been paid their salaries for May or June, and their July payments are uncertain.
Tswaing is one of 69 municipalities whose grants were withheld by the National Treasury. Tswaing has been failing to pay pension fund contributions.
The North West provincial government is supervising the municipality’s Financial Recovery Plan.

“We are going hungry. I have five children to support, including a one-year-old, but we don’t have any money for food or anything”, said Robert (not his real name), a technical worker in the…

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