MORE than 800 Mopani district municipality workers lined the streets in Giyani yesterday and on Wednesday after they discovered they had not been paid their salaries.
The affected employees were those transferred from the Department of Water Affairs and Forestry to the municipality in November 2009. Mopani district municipality mayor Joshua Matlou said the problem was caused by a computer error at Absa. He said the employees would get their salaries by yesterday.
"This can happen to anyone. I was also not paid because I use a different bank. I was only able to get my salary today, like everyone else," Matlou said.
In Polokwane more than 100 staff members at the Limpopo Business Support Agency also went home empty-handed on Wednesday.
Some of the workers spent the day loitering around ATMs, hoping to withdraw the cash, but eventually went home with long faces after they were advised that they had not been paid.
"It was scary because we were neither informed nor forewarned about the non-payment," one worker said.
Workers wait in vain for their pay
MORE than 800 Mopani district municipality workers lined the streets in Giyani yesterday and on Wednesday after they discovered they had not been paid their salaries.
The affected employees were those transferred from the Department of Water Affairs and Forestry to the municipality in November 2009. Mopani district municipality mayor Joshua Matlou said the problem was caused by a computer error at Absa. He said the employees would get their salaries by yesterday.
"This can happen to anyone. I was also not paid because I use a different bank. I was only able to get my salary today, like everyone else," Matlou said.
In Polokwane more than 100 staff members at the Limpopo Business Support Agency also went home empty-handed on Wednesday.
Some of the workers spent the day loitering around ATMs, hoping to withdraw the cash, but eventually went home with long faces after they were advised that they had not been paid.
"It was scary because we were neither informed nor forewarned about the non-payment," one worker said.
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