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GroundUp reports that dozens of Expanded Public Works Programme (EPWP) workers in eThekwini municipality gathered outside the City Hall in Durban on Tuesday.
They were demanding to be insourced by the municipality after they were allegedly told their contracts would no longer be renewed at the end of this month. On Monday chaos ensued outside the Atram community hall in the city center after word spread that the municipality had put out a call for job seekers. When protesting workers arrived, they found a long line of people waiting to submit their CVs as well as HR officials. This angered the workers, who on Friday, had participated in a mass march against the termination of their contracts, some of which had been extended for ten years. According to some workers, they have been on month-to-month contracts, while others have had six-month contracts that were renewed repeatedly for ten years. They have protested and raised this issue several times, demanding to be employed permanently. Silindile Khumalo of the Municipal and Allied Trade Union of South Africa (Matusa) said: “We decided to come and prevent people who were here doing interviews. On Friday we asked to hand over the memorandum and we are still waiting for the response.” Asked whether the City would be hiring people to do the same jobs as the EPWP workers, municipal spokesperson Gugu Sisilana said she would not discuss internal matters with the media.
- Read the full original of the report in the above regard by Tsoanelo Sefoloko at GroundUp
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