The Transit Camp Housing Development Project workers held a Cacadu project manager hostage at Noluthando Hall yesterday, demanding to be paid three months’ worth of outstanding salaries.
Workers would not let project manager Thando Sidloyi leave the premises until he had paid them. They were toyi-toying in a separate room to Sidloyi.
The Transit Camp Housing Development Project workers held a Cacadu project manager hostage at Noluthando Hall yesterday, demanding to be paid three months’ worth of outstanding salaries.
Workers would not let project manager Thando Sidloyi leave the premises until he had paid them. They were toyi-toying in a separate room to Sidloyi.
“I was just passing through here, I was not informed that workers were toyi-toying. Now they’re demanding answers from me,” said Sidloyi.
He said the reason workers had not been paid was that they did not submit their progress reports and banking details on time.
He said that last Monday, an East London employee, whose name he did not know, came to get the workers’ banking account details but that they did not submit them.
He said that another project manager was making a plan to borrow money to pay workers so that he could be let out of the building. Melikhaya Solani, a Transit Camp worker, said, “We haven’t been paid for three months.They say that Bhisho has no money to pay us.”
Another project manager at the site, who declined to be named, said the contractors had submitted claims for workers’ wages.
A police officer who was parked across the road said there was no need to intervene as it was just a “peaceful meeting”. At the time of going to press, Sidloyi had not been released.
