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To guarantee you this kind of situation, you should in the upcoming Municipal elections in 2016 vote for the ruling party – the African National Congress!!
Why would I even have the audacity to claim this? Well let me give you an example of how things work.
Recently the Elias Motsoaledi Local Council was given a grant by the Treasury to implement an Extended Public Works Program (EPWP) to employ 65 people for an eight (8) month contract earning R 85.00 per day. The grant in total amounting to R 1 326 000.00.
The extended public works program was supposed to have been rolled out with effect from the 01st December 2014 for the project period of eight months, which would have created employment for 65 people and alleviating poverty in the area.
After having advertised the vacant positions, applicants submitting their applications, evaluations done on those that applied, candidates that would be most deserving to be employed, shortlisting done, and interviews conducted by the Council, eventually issued letters of employment to all 65 candidates that were successful in their application for employment to commence work on the 01st December 2014.
Council however at the last minute, one day before the contract was due to be rolled out, sent an SMS message to all those that had been issued with letters of employment to return it to council, and that the commencement of the contract has been suspended, and that they would no longer be employed effective from the 01st December 2014.
Later on Council decided that the project that was financed by Treasury for a eight month period at a total cost of R 1 326 000 would be cut back to a three month contract and this in effect would only cost Council R 497 250.00 extrapolated at 65 employees earning R 85.00 per day for three months.
The question and answer that Council should account for is what is it doing with the surplus of the grant that it received from Treasury in the amount of R 828 750.00 to create employment and assist the indigent, poor and unemployed in the area?
Council most probably channeled the grant to pay for other expenses within its ambit, and the possibility even exists that it could have used it to pay performance bonuses to senior managers, especially so that it received the grant in December which supplemented their Christmas spending and may have served as a ‘performance bonus” not earned in any way!
So if you want to be unemployed, and have no disposable income, be indigent, poor, and manipulated, cast your vote in favour of those that deprived you from having any kind of income – the ruling government, none other than the African National Congress.
Does the ruling government really care about your welfare, NO! The contrary is rather evident, and remember Zuma said that the ANC will rule until “Jesus comes!” so that means you will be unemployed, indigent, and poor for a very long time to come.
