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PAYDAY FOR ELECTIONS REGISTRATION CLERKS

03/07/2018 04:21:00 BY THEMBINKOSI MAVIMBELA

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ELANGENI – Unlike in other government exercises requiring the employment of temporary workers who would eventually not be paid, some elections registration clerks are already smiling all the way to the bank.

At least 90 of the national elections registration clerks were paid by the Elections and Boundaries Commission (EBC) yesterday at Elangeni Royal Kraal. These are a small margin of around 1 200 of them, who carried out voter registration duties in different areas nationally. The figure includes imisumpe, who will also be paid by the commission.

Last year, several enumerators cried foul after they worked in a national statistics survey commissioned by government but were not paid.
EBC Public Relations Officer, Mbonisi Bhembe, said yesterday they only paid registration clerks who were stationed in towns, malls and hospitals among other places. Bhembe said today they would go to royal kraals to pay those who were stationed there.

He said they could not pay them as a collective because those stationed at royal kraals were still assisting the public with the validation of the voters roll. “Those who worked during the extension period will receive their dues together with their payment for working during the validation stage,” Bhembe explained.

Bhembe said they were hoping the employer would assist them in ensuring that the clerks were paid. He explained that the registration clerks would be paid after every stage of the elections process. This means that they will receive their next payment after the validation stage. There seems to be a long-term plan for those currently working in the national elections, as Bhembe revealed that they would not only be working in this year’s elections but will be engaged in the future. He explained that the EBC staff could not manage the national elections workload on its own but needed the assistance of clerks.