The Minister of Public Works and Infrastructure Dean Macpherson announced that the department will investigate claims of sex for work in the EPWP and CPWP.
The Minister of Public Works and Infrastructure, Dean Macpherson, announced that his department will investigate sex-for-jobs scandals in the EPWP
The allegations were made during his visit to the uMngeni Municipality in KwaZulu-Natal to talk to EPWP and CPWP workerscurrent affairs journalist, contributed coverage of international and local social issues like health, corruption, education, unemployment, labour, service delivery protests and heritage in South Africa during his seven years at Daily Sun and Vutiviof Public Works and Infrastructure, said he will investigate sexual abuse claims in the Expanded Public Works Programme and...
"I heard that people go to an office for a job and that there are three or four people from one house with jobs while some don't have and we are going to look into that. If we catch an official who is covering up nonsense by councillors or in councillors' offices, that official will lose their job," he added.He also revealed that the government is working on finding more profitable and productive uses for unused and hijacked government buildings.
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