Show us our money, all R1bn of it, say KZN’s traditional leaders

Chair of the KZN house of traditional leaders Inkosi Phathisizwe Chiliza chats to KZN Cogta MEC Sipho Hlomuka during a meeting with the amakhosi in Durban on Tuesday.

Image: Thuli Dlamini Chair of the KZN house of traditional leaders Inkosi Phathisizwe Chiliza chats to KZN Cogta MEC Sipho Hlomuka during a meeting with the amakhosi in Durban on Tuesday.

The payment of izinduna (headmen) is one of the thorny issues facing new KwaZulu-Natal co-operative and traditional affairs MEC Sipho Hlomuka.

Front and centre of the problem is R1bn in salary backpay owed to izinduna.

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