Johannesburg – Minister of Public Works, Dean Macpherson, has suspended extensive financing of the Public Works Program to Matjhabeng The local municipality awaiting a full investigation.
This follows reports that politically connected municipal employees receive blown salaries through the EPWP.
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Some employees reportedly received salaries as high as R30,000 a month, while others are paid so few R1,500.
Macpherson says that the EPWP was established to offer skills-based work opportunities in the short term, not to serve as an AA vehicle for political patronage.
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