NDZ’s daughter in dispute

UIF: WORKERS CLAIM THEY HAVE NOT RECEIVED THEIR BENEFITS

Business partner blames government for nonpayment.

Arestaurant co-owned by Gugulethu Zuma-Ncube, daughter of Minister of Co-operative Governance and Traditional Affairs, Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma and former president Jacob Zuma, is embroiled in bitter dispute with her employees.

The workers claim some of them have not received their Unemployment Insurance Fund (UIF) benefits and those who did, received it “in dribs and drabs”.

But Zuma-Ncube’s business partner denied that there was anything untoward, saying the fault lay with government and that the business even made emergency payments to workers from their own pockets until the UIF came though.

Minister Dlamini-Zuma is the face of the Covid-19 state of disaster which the government declared in March and is central in the implementation of lockdown regulations.

The UIF Covid-19 Temporary Employer/Employee Relief Scheme (Ters) payments were provided by the government as distress relief to employees whose jobs were affected by the lockdown.

The irate employees, who asked to remain anonymous, told of how they went without salaries since 27 March. This after the Sandton restaurant, Urban Moyo, closed due to the lockdown.

They claimed Zuma-Ncube ignored their pleas for her intervention when her business partner, Theo Moodley, allegedly kept on sending them from pillar to post about their payouts under the Covid-19 UIF Ters.

Zuma-Ncube, who is married

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