FIVE former contract workers have spent close to a year waiting to be paid by the department of education for two months of work.
The group were hired by the Chris Hani west department of education to count the assets at a number of schools in the region which were to be affected by the department's rationalisation programme.
One of the five, Vuyisani Hans, said the two-month contract started at the beginning of November last year and lasted until December 8, 2017 when schools closed.
“We worked in the entire Chris Hani west district covering Komani, Whittlesea and its surrounding villages, Cradock, Cacadu, Cathcart and its farms and Waqu. All five of us never received the money for the two months we worked,” he said.
Hans said he has been trying to get answers from the department since January but has had no satisfactory answer. “I even went as far as Bhisho to demand my payment but we are told different stories every time. …no one seems to know what is happening,” he said.
Chris Hani West department of education director Nkosinathi Godlo committed that Hans and his four colleagues would be receiving their money, but declined to specify when the money would be deposited into their bank accounts...