Mozambique: Diname management pays workers a month’s salary, but remains silent – Carta

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Mozambique: Diname management pays workers a month’s salary, but remains silent – Carta

5:07 CAT | 04 Nov 2022

It took a cry for help, reported by ‘Carta’, for the Ministry of Education and Human Development (MINEDH) to pay some of its bills, allowing Diname management to pay some of its workers a month’s salary.

According to the workers affected, last Wednesday, Diname’s management surprised its employees with the payment of a month’s salary, with the remaining four months remaining unpaid. However, the sources reveal that the payment of the salary generated further friction, because not everyone received the amount.

Carta has learned that the process of paying a month’s salary started last Wednesday, that is, one day after the publication of the Carta article. Sources say that, shortly after the article was published, a Dimane director supposedly met the MINEDH board, which decided to pay some overdue bills, facilitating the payment of some workers’ salaries.

READ: Mozambique: Diname workers unpaid for more than six months – O País

So, late Wednesday afternoon, wages began to drop into the bank accounts of some workers across the country, leaving others still on the waiting list. Those excluded contacted Diname’s finance department, which explained that there had been a failure in the system and that the salaries would indeed be paid.

However, to their surprise, the system failure was only for part of the workers, while the entire governing body had already received their salaries without any problem. On Thursday morning, workers who still hadn’t received their wages went to Diname for a peaceful protest meeting.

At the site, the workers were informed that not all salaries were paid because the amount that entered the company’s accounts had to be used to pay the director-general’s social security contributions and finance a trip for him to Lichinga, his natal province.

The explanation infuriated the workers, who decided to march to the board to get more details on the matter. The upshot was that, just hours later, the salaries of the remaining workers were processed.

The group however remains unsatisfied, because one month’s salary does not solve the problems generated in five months.

“The company has five months of salaries in debt. Today, it decided to pay us just one month and doesn’t say anything else about the other salaries in arrears. This does not solve our problem. We know that this salary was only paid to stop us contacting the press, that is, to calm us down, but we want what is ours and we will continue our strike until we are paid,” the group says.

More than 70 Diname workers have wages in arrears.

By Marta Afonso

Source: Carta de Moçambique