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Denel employees who haven't been paid salaries in months facing bleak Christmas

The state-owned arms manufacturer owes its staff hundreds of millions of rand in salaries and about R900m is owed to suppliers

Isaac Mahlangu Senior reporter

*Mahlako is scrambling around, looking for a quick loan to pay the balance on a lay-by he put on Christmas clothes for his five children.

Like dozens of his other colleagues, Mahlako, a Denel employee, last received his full salary in May last year...

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