Court Papers filed in Overpayment of Municipal Salaries Matter
· PBRRA
We have launched an application to interdict the excessive salaries of the top six municipal officials: Municipal Manager Lonwabo Ngoqo, CFO Mkhefa, HOD Engineering Rhode, HOD Community Services Sompani, HOD Strategic Services Friedman and Acting HOD of Corporate Services Groenewald. We are asking the Labour Court to recover their past excess salaries, as well as interdict their future salaries in excess of legal limits. In some cases they have been overpaying themselves by as much as half a million rand per annum, while granting themselves an allowance of 20% for “scarce skills” even though their jobs require no special skill beyond what any municipality requires. This must stop.
This case is of unusual significance because we are asking the court to award costs against the councillors individually if the municipal officials cannot or do not pay.Notice of Motion
Founding Affidavit
- PDF documentPG 1 EXCO ResolutionDownload
- PDF documentPG 2 RPA ConstitutionDownload
- PDF documentPG 3 GG43122Download
- PDF documentPG 4 GG 37500 Clause 10 (pages 7 and 8)Download
- PDF documentPG 5 GG 38946 Clause 10Download
- PDF documentPG 6 Table of SalariesDownload
- PDF documentPG 7 Scarce Skills Policy(C/3/86/06/13)Download
- PDF documentPG 8.1 letter to Director-General dated 5 JuneDownload
- PDF documentPG 8.2 letter to Donald Grant as a followupDownload
- PDF documentPG 9.1 12 March 2020 letter to councilorsDownload
- PDF documentPG 9.2 15 April 2020 letter to councilorsDownload
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