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The Citizen reports that an unemployed Soshanguve man was so desperate to get training and a job that he obtained a court order forcing the City of Tshwane’s economic development department to take him on as a trainee.
However, Oupa Magoro is still waiting for the city to furnish him and the court with particulars of its available training programmes. The High Court in Pretoria last month granted an order to Magoro declaring that the notice in 2013 that he received from the city accepting him as a candidate for training in the city’s Tshepo 10 000 programme was valid and binding on the city. The judge ordered the city to allow Magoro to undergo training for 12 months. In the case that the particular programme no longer existed, the court gave the city time to supply details of its available comparable training programmes for which Magoro would qualify. This week the court gave the city until 14 February to come up with a plan to comply with its order. In 2013, Magoro applied for acceptance in the city’s programme and received a text message that he had been successful. This was followed by a letter saying he had been accepted and that he would be called. When he didn’t receive a call and after many inquiries, Magoro went to court. The city opposed his application, claiming he had ignored a text message to report for training. But the court accepted his statement that he had never received such a message.
- Read this report by Ilse de Lange in full at The Citizen
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