Johnathan Paoli
THE Acting Director-General and Government Spokesperson Nomonde Mnukwa has praised the 20 years of existence of the Expanded Public Works Program (EPWP) and said that it represented one of the country’s success stories of mass public employment and was by far one of the largest poverty alleviation initiatives.
Mnukwa, in a post Cabinet briefing on Thursday and said that it had received a briefing on the implementation and achievements of the EPWP, a flagship government programme that has provided millions of work opportunities to unemployed South Africans since its inception.
She said the programme has over the past 20 years created over 14 million work opportunities, making it the largest continuous public employment programme in the world and that this milestone was achieved through continuous partnerships with the private sector and civil society.
“These work opportunities have contributed to skills development for the participants as they were created
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