Some Tshwane municipality employees weren’t paid their salaries on Monday morning because of a glitch at Absa bank – not because of any cash flow problems faced by the metro.
According to metro spokesperson Lindela Mashigo, only employees who banked with Absa got paid their salaries. Employees who didn’t bank with Absa weren’t paid.
“This non-payment of salaries to some employees was as a result of a technical glitch on the part of the bank and not because of the financial crunch the City is facing and dealing with,” said Mashigo.
“The non-payment was as a result of an error from the bank, which they have acknowledged.”
Mashigo said the delay has been caused by the public holiday on Saturday.
He, however, said the metro will process all late salaries by midnight as stipulated by law.
The metro has been struggling to pay Eskom, which threatened to disconnect Tshwane.
Mayor Randall Williams said that the overdue Eskom bill for electricity consumption in July was paid in full, but he did not mention the August bill that was due on the same day.
ANC councillor Kgosi Maepa told Rekord that the City was bankrupt; hence, it failed to procure diesel for its bus services, an allegation which the metro has denied.
He claimed that the Tshwane metro police have also been affected.
“The City is bankrupt since the 2021/2022 financial year and has no money to buy diesel and petrol for its bus fleet and metro police vehicles,” Maepa said.
The metro has, however, slammed his allegations as being “false”.
“The City is not bankrupt, but has liquidity challenges which it has made public already,” Mashigo said.
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