No help in sight for dead man walking
“We could not find it (salary advice) and they ended up calling the GSSC department where we found out that I was declared deceased.”
WEEKS have gone by and still no help in sight for Moses Nkosi who remains penniless and unable to receive his salary after finding out that he was legally declared dead.
The 43-year-old, who is doing a nursing course, said he is losing hope.
He said no alteration to his situation had been made by Home Affairs since the ordeal began.
Nkosi said he was concentrating on studying and needed help as he did not know what to do.
Nkosi discovered that he was declared dead legally since his mother’s burial on May 6.
To date, he remains unable to receive an income from his place of employment after they told him the Gauteng Shared Service Centre (GSSC) declared him as deceased.
Living a nightmare, after his company froze his salary, he said he found all this out on June 15 when his salary advice did not come through from his workplace.
He enquired about the salary advice and to his surprise, his employer told him his salary had been frozen.
“We could not find my salary advice and they ended up calling the GSSC department where we found out that I was declared deceased.”
He said the error had been made when he filled in his mother’s burial form, where a lady by the name of Candice Govender added his name as deceased instead of only his mother’s name.
He said the same woman had made mistakes when it came to his mother’s burial dates.
Nkosi has for the past month not received his monthly paycheck but has been focusing on his course which he has been going to weekly.
The Ekhurhuleni resident, a student at the Ann Latsky Nursing College, was doing his practical examinations and needed to concentrate but said he couldn’t as he desperately needed money to get by.
“I am tired of asking people for help, financially.”
The father to three children, two girls and a boy, said that he had to make a sworn affidavit just to be able to have some kind of documentation in his favour.
He said Home Affairs were aware they had made a mistake and said they were looking into it. “I need to prove that I am still alive legally to be able to get my earned salary.
The COURIER was still awaiting answers to a secondary enquiry sent to the department’s spokesperson.
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