ANA reports that Johannesburg Mayor Herman Mashaba on Thursday cancelled the City’s R1-billion co-production programme Jozi@Work, which was spearheaded by the previous administration, saying it was littered with patronage.  

Jozi@Work, a programme designed to provide short-term work opportunities by allowing communities to partner with the city in the delivery of municipal services in their neighbourhoods, was launched in September 2014.  Mashaba said he had been struck by how communities despised the unfairness of the city’s “vanity projects”.  He claimed that communities had been complaining that the work opportunities were handed out on the basis of membership of the previous governing party.  But the ANC quickly hit out‚ saying:  "Today is a sad day for over 8‚000 workers and 112 cooperatives/local companies in Johannesburg."  The ANC claimed that their programme "created thousands of jobs for the unemployed residents of Johannesburg".

• Read this report in full at The Citizen
• See too, Mayor Mashaba shuts Jozi@work‚ says it was enriching ANC few, at TimesLive

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