Scores of disgruntled current and former employees of the government-owned bus company Great North Transport have been protesting outside the Office of the Limpopo Premier for a second day.

They are demanding that their provident fund schemes payout their pension funds, estimated at more than R300 million.

The protesters say they have not yet been addressed by any official from the Premier’s office. Some of them say it is disheartening that their demands are not being taken seriously.

“We are very much disappointed because the Premier is the Premier that we have a hand in for her to be in this office. But, we are of the view that she will take care of us, but we slept here without any response,” says one of the pensioners.

The pensioners have been struggling to receive their pension fund payouts for over a decade. Many of them worked at the Great North Transport bus company for almost three decades.

They maintain that their pension funds were misappropriated by the labour unions’ representative and GNT. They say that Great North Transport management deducted pension contributions from the workers but did not pay them into pension schemes.

Over 800 former workers are yet to receive their pensions.