Expanded Public Works Programme

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Intended beneficiaries of the expanded public works scheme are only temporary workers and open to exploitation by unscrupulous employers.

The jobs programme further demeans those who won’t contribute but take state largesse for granted.

The department of public works say they created more than the required 600 000 job opportunities in the 2010/11 financial year.

Government’s expanded public works programme benefits those with political connections, not the poor, DA MP James Masango said on Wednesday.

What has the Expanded Public Works Programme achieved in the period since its launch in 2004?