The National Education, Health and Allied Workers’ Union [NEHAWU] strongly condemns the African National Congress [ANC] for its continuous failure to pay workers’ their salaries.

As NEHAWU, we find it totally unacceptable that the ANC has not paid salaries of workers, contributed to provide fund and medical aid for months.

The ANC has made workers scapegoats for the organisations financial mismanagement yet these workers have served the ANC with outmost dedication and loyalty, and as such deserve to be treated with dignity by the organisation.

How does the organisation justify that it has continuously failed to contribute to workers’ Provident Fund and Medical Aid as the employer. The importance of a provident fund can never at any given moment be understated in creating social security for any worker be it upon retirement, incapacity to work and other factors. Seemingly, the ANC does not value the importance of providing financial and social security to these workers.

Indeed, this confirms to us that ANC has lost its moral and ethical compass as an organisation that is supposed to be bias to the poor and working-class. What kind of an organisation would find absolutely nothing wrong with subjecting its employees to economic hardships?

The continuous failure to pay salaries has subjected all workers to a black Christmas by ANC in the last ten years (10) and this must be strongly condemned. 

Lastly, as NEHAWU, we call on the ANC to pay workers their salaries, contribute to the Provident Fund and also to contribute to Medical Aids with immediate effect.  

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Issued by NEHAWU Secretariat.

Zola Saphetha (General Secretary) at 082 558 5968; December Mavuso (Deputy General Secretary) at 082 558 5969; Lwazi Nkolonzi (NEHAWU National Spokesperson) at 081 558 2335 or email: lwazin@nehawu.org.za