ANC staff members at headquarters, Luthuli House, as well as in provincial and regional offices, embarked on lunchtime pickets after months of salaries paid late.
Employees of the governing party have not even received payment for work done in May.
The ANC has been experiencing financial problems with reports that it owed the South African Revenue Service (SARS) R80 million in Pay As You Earn (PAYE) deductions.
Despite non-payment of salaries and other financial challenges facing the ANC, Treasurer-General Paul Mashatile insists the party is not broke.
Mashatile told eNCA in an interview that the party hit a rough patch, like many businesses across the country, because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
“The first time we paid salaries late was in 2019, instead of before Christmas we paid after Christmas, we got our funding late and then of course with the COVID-19 situation, I think you are quite right, maybe twice or so we paid late, especially now in May,” he said.
- Inside Politics