Pretoria News reports that the City of Tshwane’s Community and Social Development Services Department has officially launched a recruitment drive funded by the Presidential Employment Stimulus Programme to create work opportunities.

MMC Peggy de Bruin on Sunday revealed that, as part of the programme, the city had been allocated R146,215,000 by the National Treasury to create 9,000 of these work opportunities for a period of six months. Applicants will be recruited from the existing Expanded Public Works Programme database, which has 150,000 registered job seekers. "To ensure that the process is aligned with our values of fairness and transparency, the City is implementing its lottery recruitment system, which is an electronic random draw. The system works independently without any influence by electronically selecting applicants from our Expanded Public Works Programme database,” De Bruin explained. She added that registration on the database was open for job seekers between the ages of 18 and 60, who should bring along a certified copy of their identity document and proof of residence.

• Read the full original of the report in the above regard by James Mahlokwane at Pretoria News

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