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Public Works employees sleep outside post ofiice for a week waiting to be paid Mikhaseli Scuani 21 Fed Ground: About 400 Extended Publio Works Programme (EPWP) workers from Chris Hani District Municipality have been queuing overnight outside the KomantPost Office waising to be paid their salaries by Postbank. They say they have been sleeping outside the post otfice-since Wednesday. They keep warm by buming cardboard They say electricily outages in Komant. Eskcm load shedding and poor service by the staff have forced them lo sleop ouside the poot offce and wail for days before getting paid: The workers are employed by the Department of Public Works, working two days a week for R8to a month. Thoy say their Postbank cards have not bech usablo at retail shope since October 2022, so they havo to oome lo the post office. Wotkers from Lady Frere spend betweon R120 and R180 on Liexi fatos in croter lo come and colloet their salaries at Komani Post Olfice. Theth wo Mgoboz, from Ntabethicmba, said she had been sleoping outside the post olfice since tast weck Tuesday. ron fuesday and Wednesday last woek i couldi't get my salary bocause the electrory Was off. Then on Thursday and Fridily the post oftise had 10 close becauso thare war it Holithutdowin by Komant residents: Nolulama Ngaba, Irom Lady Frere, said it has been a struggle since the Lady Frere post offlce closed in 2016. We then had to come all the way here to Komanl Post Olfice to recelve our salarias... Taxi tare became a big problem for us. A taxi from where I live is R120 retum trip. But for other people who llve in distant places the taxi fare is R180: "In 2020 the Post Office introduced the Postbank cards. But they gave us technical problems. When we used cards at the banks they were swallowed by ATMs. Shops declined them. Then we were all ordered to come to this Post Office," she said. Ngaba said on Monday a stampede nearly oceured because of the poor service. "I arrived here on Monday at about 3:30am but I left with dozens of other workers at 4:30pm without getting our salaries. Every time we come here we are told that from 7am there is no electricity in Komani until 11 lam. Then we ask the post olfice staff why there are no generators as a back-up but we don't get answers. "When the clectricity comes back at 11 am the staff will start going back to work at 12:30pm Then there is a group of youth who arrive late and jump the queue because they bribe the staff "Last night I had to buy two litres of milk for R25 on credit to make porridge for my family. If I don't get my moncy todiy we will sleep on empty stomachs," she said. Nokwanda Magabela, from Hewu, said, "We have been suifcring ever since the retail shops stopped accepting our Posibunk cards. There is no booking by stem here. On Monday when the Post Office ctosed I was in front of the quete, but today although I arnved here at the Po:30m, Where were a lot of people in frent of me. ryhen we ask the police for a plaiec to sleep, because we don't fecl wafe sleeping here, they teli us-we should sleep at filling-stations I slept at Zegen Garugo with other wymen." She said she would not go home empty handed w her four chitdiren. EPWP supertsor Ntombentibla Ndxule came with 10 wodkers fimmi Lady Frere. "We arrived here on Monday at bam with my tean. Buf one of the stafl members colleced Then frum 3am 1 camb hiere to die Posc Omfice and made an open Lire wahl cirdoand boses to warm ouncives. Worters stant their money becaube them tanition we humity and hey owz: Loan warkb