Gauteng premier Panyaza Lesufi has stated that Women’s Day should be a reflection of the challenges women face in the country.
Lesufi was delivering his keynote address and he made his sentiments very clear.
Lesufi began his political career as a spokesperson then he was elevated to MEC. He is now the premier of Gauteng.
Women in the country have faced numerous challenges which range from GBV to unemployment.
This means Lesufi’s grip on the province could slip even further. Though he won the position of chair, most of the PEC members are aligned to Maile.
Another headache Lesufi revealed this week is that his Nas iSpani (or Here is a Job) programme, launched on Youth Day attracted 1.2-million applicants — to fill just 8,000 posts.
Lesufi created huge expectations through the programme that his administration would be absorbing unemployed young people into decent, full-time jobs.
Except these jobs are simply filling provincial government vacancies — those that are funded.
It is not the first time the Gauteng government has launched a youth employment drive.
Lesufi’s predecessor, David Makhura, in 2014 launched the Tshepo 500,000 programme, aimed at youth training and employment, which at the time was dubbed a failure by opposition parties.
Lesufi’s spokesperson, Sizwe Pamla, tells the FM that the sheer number of applicants for the 8,000 jobs became a “nightmare”, so what started out as filling government posts has now morphed into the creation of a database of the unemployed.
The provincial government would now require all companies tendering with the province to create a particular number of jobs and then be allocated names from that database.
Sadly, the majority of those who applied for these posts are not educated or skilled
Source: https://ewn.co.za/2023/08/09/women-s-day-should-be-a-reminder-of-the-struggles-sa-women-face-daily-lesufi
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