January salaries for 260 employees in the Stutterheim-based Amahlathi local municipality are only being paid now.Salary agreements and massive travel allowances since 2014 are bankrupting the municipality.Community leaders say basic services are suffering as a result.Broken sewage drains, uncollected rubbish and disintegrating roads plague Stutterheim, the administrative centre of the Amahlathi Local Municipality in the Eastern Cape. In January the municipality was unable to pay its civil servants. Municipal spokesperson Anathi Nyoka said on Wednesday that all municipal employees’ salaries wil…
