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Striking Mafube employees paid outstanding salaries─── REFILWE GAESWE 05:42 Wed, 17 Feb 2016
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Frankfort - More than 400 Mafube Municipality workers received their salaries for January and February this week after disgruntled workers downed tools last week to demand payment.
Mafube - comprising Frankfort, Cornelia, Tweeling and Villiers - is facing dire financial constraints.
Moruti Mokoena, municipal shop steward of South African Municipal Workers Union (Samwu), says they have been struggling to get salaries on time for the past four years.
Mokoena says Samwu has opened a case against a private power utility that is currently running Mafube’s electricity services, regarding how they acquired their 25-year contract.
“The very same power utility is taking all the money that used to come to the municipality as revenue. For the past four years, Mafube municipality hasn’t been paying third parties. It usually pays the medical aid (contributions) of employees once every two to three months so that it cannot lapse, and then doesn't pay them for another two to three months.”
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