The estimated budget for the project, which the contractor abandoned, was over R55 million, but the temporary workers have not been paid for almost two years.
The Democratic Alliance and the ANC in the troubled Mogalakwena municipality in Limpopo are at loggerheads after the municipality’s failure to pay the salaries of more than 10 construction workers from a R55 million water project. The employees are starving under lockdown after the service provider allegedly abandoned the project and disappeared without a trace.
This week, the DA wrote to Mogalakwena municipality mayor Andrina Matsemela, asking her to probe the nonpayment of three months’ salaries to more than 10 temporary workers at the Mapela-Moordkoppie water project since December 2018. The municipality had allocated over R10 million in the 2018-2019 financial year and further payments of R10 million, R20 million and R15 million for the 2019-20, 2020-21 and 2021-22 financial years respectively.
Adding insult to injury, while the employees hoped the service provider would come forward and pay them their money to help with necessities during lockdown, the municipality has done little to help. “As the mayor, she must also ensure that the contractor is blacklisted from doing business with the municipality again.
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