Over a hundred employees of Rundu Cash and Carry are left without jobs after they participated in a demonstration in December over allegations of unfair treatment and low wages.

Since the demonstration, the employees have been meeting up at the Dr. Romanus Kampungu Secondary School sports field, waiting for the four working days they gave the company to get back to them.

The shop, which had been closed last Wednesday while police investigated a robbery, reopened that same afternoon.

However, it has been operating with new employees who were hired on the day of the demonstration.

"The center of our organization is that we want to see the Cash and Carry group of companies behave because as of now they are not behaving; they are taking us for granted; they are taking the community for granted; we are supporting them by buying from them as a community of Kavango East, Kavango West, and Rundu in particular; but they are not taking us seriously in terms of how they are treating our young people and those that they have employed. This country is free because of this type of treatment, which is why people were up in arms during the liberation struggle because of this type of practice," said Vincent Kanyetu, Secretary General of the All People's Party.

The employees who were supposed to get paid last Friday only started getting their salaries on Monday this week.

Some employees received salaries as low as N$10.34, while others got nothing at all.

"Because there is no way you can use someone, you are paying this person 10 dollars and 34 cents per day for 39 days and 13 hours per day. People are mothers, people are fathers, people are taking care of family members, and most of them don't know what they owe. What this Indian and Ndjendjela are doing is accusing people. We recently had a case where chairs were transferred from the main shop to a smaller branch, and because of the lack of record keeping by the Indians themselves, they accuse the workers of stealing those one hundred and something chairs."

Kanyetu says it is sad that none of the leaders in the region came to the rescue of the employees.

He says now the community is left with no choice but to stand up for itself.

The four days given to the company to respond to the workers' demands lapsed today; if nothing is done, they will demonstrate again next week on Thursday.

nbc News reached out to Gottlieb Ndjendjela, a Tsumeb councillor who also happens to be the owner of the labor hire company that pays the Cash and Carry employees' salaries.

He says the employees were supposed to get paid on the 28th of December, but they opted to demonstrate instead, and that's why their payments were delayed.

Ndjendjela says the employees were deducted money for the safety of the company because they owe it money and they are not sure if they will come back to work.