Johnathan Paoli
THE Mopani district municipality has confirmed recent reports that some of its employees erroneously received double salaries for the month of December.
Municipal spokesperson Odas Ngobeni said on Friday that 51 councilors and 210 staff members from the municipality were erroneously paid double on 20 December.
Ngobeni said this was due to human error, which they were rectifying and that some honest officials had already reversed the payments back into the municipality’s account.
He said that the municipality communicated with all the affected councilors and employees, including their banks, for the money to be reversed and that everyone who received a double pay had an obligation to get the money reversed.
DA councilor Mahlatswa Lebeus Ramalepe said that the party was concerned over the erroneous double salary payments and condemned the municipality’s indifferent approach in handling the matter, insisting on urgent consequence management for all officials responsible for
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