Pretoria News reports that the City of Tshwane says that claims that the Democratic Alliance (DA) administration planned to fire general workers who are part of the ‘Vat Alles’ programme are untrue.  

City spokesperson Lindela Mashigo said:  “There is another force behind this trying to get the workers to be given full-time jobs.”  Since last week, workers have apparently been harbouring fears of being jobless in six months' time because there are apparently no renewal clauses in their new contracts.  Mashigo rebuffed claims of plans to fire the workers.  Vat Alles is part of the national Expanded Public Works Programme (EPWP), which offers short-term job opportunities to unemployed people to equip them with job-seeking skills.  Mashigo said the workers had to understand that their jobs were on a contract basis in line with the requirements of the EPWP.

• Read this report by Rapula Moatshe in full at Pretoria News

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