Several employees of the Amahlathi Local Municipality in Stutterheim, Eastern Cape, are taking the municipality to task for claiming that they are paid according to the tasks they perform in the workplace.
The employees have since unleashed their lawyers from Moletsane PN Attorneys Inc. in East London to challenge the disparity.
This follows last week’s claim in court by the municipality that the employees are remunerated in accordance with TASK, attaching the SALGA TASK Evaluation Report dated May 2008 as evidence that the municipal employees’ posts have been evaluated.
“Our Clients deny that their posts were evaluated in May 2008 or at any other point in time and are of the view that you have acted in a manner that is at variance and in violation of the High Court judgment, in that you continue to remunerate the employees without first making sure that their jobs and posts have been evaluated.
“According to the COGTA report on the revision of the organogram, which is dated March 2020, most positions within the municipality have not been evaluated and the report implored the municipality to urgently attend to the evaluation of its posts,” the law firm wrote in a letter dated 13 May 2025 which was obtained by the African Times.
The letter was directed at Zamuxolo Shasha, the Municipal Manager (MM).
The law firm is demanding the full report for the evaluation.
“The said proof of evaluation of the posts is to be furnished to our offices on or before close of business on 16 May 2025. We are instructed to inform you that should you fail to furnish the proof aforementioned, Our Clients will accept that the municipality has not evaluated their posts, and has remunerated them in a manner that is in violation of the Pakati judgment , and therefore in Contempt of Court and that you lied under oath when you alleged that their posts have been evaluated and you are therefore also guilty of perjury. Lastly, we are instructed to inform you that Our Clients are entitled to the proof of the evaluation outcomes of their posts,” the law firm added.
The municipality did not respond when asked for comment regarding the matter.
