The acting provincial ANC chairperson, Mandla Ndlovu, told Lowvelder Express that since the disclosure act came into being, funding has dwindled.
“And this is because many business people and private companies do not want their names out there. You’d understand that some of these business individuals and companies do business, for instance, in provinces or metros governed by the DA,” said Ndlovu.
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Frustrated ANC employees in the province staged a mini protest outside the provincial January “Che” Masilela House last Thursday. They had gone for days without getting paid their salaries and handed over a memorandum to Ndlovu who promised to take it up to the national office. Ndlovu also promised the workers that for the first time in the history of this current national executive committee (NEC), the workers’ grievances would be on the agenda.
“I promise you that your issues will be discussed in the NEC meeting,” said Ndlovu. This NEC meeting started earlier this week.
“Sitting from where I am now, I feel their pain and frustration, but equally so, I also feel the frustration of the ANC. I am sure that the ruling party would want to pay all its employees on time, but because of these setbacks we are unable to raise funds as expected to pay for our salaries on time,” Ndlovu said.
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The ANC’s national treasurer general, Paul Mashatile, Ndlovu blamed this new legislation for their financial woes. “Because of this new legislation, funders are pulling out because they do not want to be known due to reasons we all know. This is not the frustration of the ANC only; even the other political parties in the country are in the same boat, especially those that are not in government at all.
“People do not want it to be known that they are funding certain political parties and so they stopped funding. And so as we speak, people are not contributing to the ANC and that is where the problem lies. But we will continue to try our best to make sure that we pay salaries on time. We really feel for our workers, because we know they are sacrificing their time for the ANC,” Ndlovu said.
