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On Wednesday volunteers received an email from the Volunteer Team of the Fifa World Cup Organising Committee which confirmed the dates of the volunteer stipend disbursement.Ĭape Town volunteers, it said, would be paid along with those in Durban, Port Elizabeth and Rustenburg between August 9 and 15. “My son called his divisional head for IT, who said we would be paid on August 10.” But when they called the volunteer manager of Cape Town Stadium, Virginia Gabriels, to ask why it wasn’t there, they were told it would be paid on July 31. All the cash-hungry volunteers ran to the ATMs after the function, only to find that nothing had been paid.”Īlex von Ulmenstein said they had been told that the payment would be loaded on the card. “We had to queue for half an hour to sign for an FNB card, into which the stipend was to be paid. They were invited to a farewell function at the Good Hope Centre on July 8 and were told “if you don’t come you won’t be paid”. “We got constant threats at the time that, if we didn’t fill in our bank details, we wouldn’t be paid.” Volunteers were promised a R100-a-day stipend with a meal allowance of R120 a day, which was taxed. “Processing is under way and we are expecting payment by the end of the month.”Ĭhris von Ulmenstein of Fresnaye and her son Alex, a first year BComm student at Stellenbosch University, were both volunteers at Cape Town stadium. He said almost 50 000 police had still to be paid. Several police officers also complained that the promised meal allowance had not materialised and some who were deployed at Fan Parks in areas away from their homes had to pay for accommodation out of their own pockets.Ĭolonel Vish Naidoo, police spokesman for 2010 security, confirmed that none of the police staff who worked overtime had been paid. “We were promised in a meeting at police headquarters in Cape Town in July that members would be paid immediately after the necessary forms were received, but despite this being done, our members have not been paid.” Members were promised a daily flat-rate of R700 regardless of rank, if they worked more than their 40 hour week. The union’s Billy Daniels said members had been promised payment would be made immediately after they filled in the necessary forms. Police management said they would be paid by the end of the month. More than 8 000 volunteers are still waiting to be paid and the South African Police Union in the Western Cape said it had been inundated with calls from members complaining that they had not yet been paid their overtime. “ Nearly a month after Fifa departed, with its substantial profits, following the World Cup, thousands of police and volunteers are still anxiously awaiting money owed to them.