EPWP continues to offer employment to the youth
All selected EPWP participants will be placed in labour-intensive capital projects identified and scheduled to take place within the City.
Tshwane metro expanded public works programme (EPWP) continues to offer much-needed employment opportunities to the youth.
According to MMC for Social Development and Community Services Peggy de Bruin, the metro has embarked on a concerted recruitment drive under the EPWP, also known as the Gata le Nna programme.
“EPWP falls under a mayoral flagship poverty-alleviation initiative as the rate of poverty is getting higher each and every day.
“The lottery ensures that participants are appointed in a fair, transparent and audited process, while servicing affected communities,” she said, adding that participants were selected by lottery.
De Bruin said on July 20, a total of 1 513 participants from all seven regions of Tshwane were selected for recruitment.
“Including the selection held on August 4, the grand total for Gata le Nna is 3 302.
“The lottery selection process targets unemployed youths, adults and people living with disabilities across all regions.
“The process is guided by legislative requirements aligned with the City’s EPWP departmental compliance management framework.”
De Bruin said the metro remains committed to contributing to the creation of employment opportunities under the EPWP and assisting affected communities.
“All selected EPWP recruits will be placed in labour-intensive capital projects identified and scheduled to take place within the City.
“In winning the trust of communities, the City continues to follow a transparent and credible process in the management of EPWP employment opportunities.
“The next lottery session will be communicated in due course,” she said.
According to the metro spokesperson, Azwihangwisi Mphidi, the procedure of selecting EPWP recruits uses an artificial intelligence (AI) driven lottery system.
“The system assists in ensuring that EPWP recruits are appointed in a fair, transparent, and audited process, while servicing affected communities.
“The selections are currently done from a database that currently has +160 000 eligible participants registered across Tshwane.
“The database is consistently growing (daily basis) and we have had an overwhelming take up from the public,” Mphidi said.
Mphidi said this has become the available employment/income vehicle from Tshwane.
“The current system enables the City to select participants for any project/programme, based on age, gender, skills set, wards (regions), persons with disabilities as well as indigents – the poorest participants.
Mphidi said the selection of recruits is done in the presence of qualified auditors.
“Each selection is certified with a certificate from group audit and risk management to confirm if the selected participants are indeed selected in a fair, transparent, and free from nepotism.
“Contracting of participants can only be done from the certified selection list.
“Moreover, verification of contracts is done after contracting to ensure that only participants from the certified selection list work,” Mphidi said.
Mphidi said participants are contracted to work for a maximum period of 12 months only, with an exception of participants selected for multi-year projects, then go on a 12-month cooling off period before they can be eligible for selection again.
“This is to ensure that the programme reaches as many people as it possibly can,” said Mphidi.
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