An ailing Free State Municipality once again failed to pay its workers' salaries for the month of September 2023. The Theunissen-based Masilonyana Municipality will not be paying salaries following financial constraints.

In a leaked document of a communique from the municipal manager to councillors and employees, the manager has advised workers that their salaries would be delayed.  

In this letter, the MM states that the municipality is faced with cash challenges, and workers' salaries will be paid on 5 October, whilst overtime and other allowances are set to be paid on 15 October. The municipality has since issued an apology to its workers.

OFM News previously reported this municipality once paid workers with food parcels after it failed to pay salaries. Workers received food vouchers worth R1000, which could be used at one of the local food retail stores.

According to the communique sent to workers at the time, the vouchers were limited to food stock. Still, they could be used for other essential commodities such as the purchase of prepaid electricity.

The municipality has also struggled to make payments of salaries to workers on several occasions in the past few years.

OFM News