On Thursday morning, rubbish beans and wastage were still littered all over and it seems this will go on for a while. And its a health risk.
Bone of contention: the canning of Jozi@Work programme initiated by the ANC led Government in the City.
This follows the order by Mayor Herman Mashaba that the programme identified as “patronage to members of the ANC” be scrapped.
To vent their anger –the workers most youth’s in their trademark yellow overalls- took to the streets and created shambles even stopping Pikit Up trucks from collecting rubbish.
“I will cancel the City’s R1 billion co-production programme Jozi@Work, which was spearheaded by the previous administration, because it was littered with patronage,” said Mashaba last month.
Jozi@Work is a programme designed to allow communities to partner with the city in the delivery of municipal services in their neighbourhoods, launched in September 2014.
Mashaba’s spokesperson Tony Taverna-Turisan said the City would continue to honour existing contracts under the programme as it continued the process of revamping the Jozi@Work programme.
Taverna-Turisan said that no jobs have been lost as a result of the City’s decision to revamp the programme, adding that all community members currently employed under Jozi@Work would continue working under the programme until the completion of their contracts.
“It is important to stress that work opportunities provided under the existing Jozi@Work programme are of a temporary nature. Currently, no work opportunities have been withdrawn in the process of revamping the existing programme,” Taverna-Turisan said.
“Rather, the key objective behind revamping Jozi@Work is ensuring that work opportunities under the programme are allocated freely and fairly whilst expanding work opportunities for residents. The new revamped Jozi@Work will bring to an end the network of patronage used to direct work opportunities to ANC members under the past administration.”
MEC for Economic Development and Rural Lebogang Maile also lashed on Mashaba by labeling him a ‘coward’ and questioning what patronage has to do with creation of jobs.
While the grass is suffering as a result of the raging bulls- the city is becoming more rotten to the core and we cannot stomach it any longer, stru!
