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After the SABC first conveniently ''forgot'' to tell Sue Dennison (63) that she needs to retire and asked her to leave the building exactly a week ago today, I can now exclusively reveal that the SABC allegedly just asked her to - get this: write up a resignation letter and fake back date it, and that she also must first pay back her July salary in order to get her pension money out of the SABC! Naturally she refused.
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After I broke the news of this incredible story of utterly unbelievable incompetence by the South African public broadcaster, its now becoming even more incredulous and preposterous! First the SABC added insult to injury by sending a rude and completely inappropriate email to Sue Dennison last Wednesday (who's been a loyal worker of 20 years at the SABC's sales and marketing division) informing her that the SABC neglected to process her retirement and that she must leave and won't be paid for the days she worked in August. Now the SABC is continuing with even crazier behaviour and making things worse.
A source close to Sue Dennison tells me that the longtime worker attended a meeting at the SABC where she got a verbal apology from the SABC with promises of a written one (which she didn't get yet). Then Sue Dennison was apparently told that she ''must back date her resignation and pay back her July salary in order to get her pension out. She obviously refused because it's illegal,'' my source tells me. ''The SABC has also not denied claims from Sue Dennison that people over the age of 63 can carry on working of they choose to do so - that there is no stipulation against this in the SABC contract of employment.''
I have asked the SABC for an official response. ''The SABC will not entertain this matter any further. This is an internal matter,'' Kaizer Kganyago, SABC spokesperson tells me. ''Whatever allegations are made doesn't change the fact that the worker needs to retire. These allegations seem like ploys to avoid going on retirement. It doesn't matter what allegations are thrown at us, the SABC is not going to respond further on this issue that is now handled by the SABC's human resources department.''
