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News24 reports that City of Johannesburg executive mayor Dada Morero received around 200 CVs after Soweto residents marched to his office on Wednesday morning.
The marchers protested after he made comments over the weekend that the City might consider using documented foreign nationals to help crime fighters breach the language barriers when dealing with foreign nationals. The comments sparked outrage from unemployed residents who said the mayor should hire residents before he hired foreign nationals. Morero backtracked on Monday after a wrapping over the knuckles by the ANC's regional executive committee (REC). He initially made the proposal to address the language barrier issues experienced by the Joburg Metro Police Department (JMPD). He explained further on Wednesday that he did not say that the city would employ foreign nationals but rather that the city needed to find ways to deal with different languages. Morero was not at the handover, but his office took the box of CVs. Later he commented: "The unemployment rate is too high, but we do not have positions open for [the protesters]." Many of Wednesday’s protesters were young, highly qualified individuals who have not been able to find work as the country faces an almost 50% youth (people aged 15 to 34) unemployment rate.
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