Deputy President of the Republic of South Africa, Cyril Ramaphosa will on 22 April 2016 lead a delegation of Cabinet Ministers on the Expanded Public Works Programme (EPWP) sites visits in Kimberley and Kuruman in the Northern Cape.
The site visits will include interaction with the EPWP participants, walkabout around community assets created and maintained as well as conducting an assessment on the impact of the Programme in alleviating poverty and unemployment through the provision of work opportunities to the poor and unemployment South Africans.
Deputy President Ramaphosa will be joined by the Premier of the Northern Cape, Ms Sylvia Lucas on the site visit in Kuruman while other Ministers will visit EPWP projects in Kimberley.
Media is invited to cover the event as follows:
Date: 22 April
Time: 11h00
Venue: Kuruman (Mothibistad)
Name of EPWP project to be visited: Root out dust project (paving and brick making project) and the Ga-Segonyane Waste Management and Greening project (Landfill site)
Site visit led by: Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa
Date: 22 April
Time: 11h00
Venue: Kimberley (Galeshewe)
Name of EPWP projects to be visited: School Support and Community safety project in Galeshewe and Root out Dust project in Green Point in Kimberley
Site visit led by: Public Employment Programme Ministers and Deputy Ministers
The media is also invited to attend the start of the PEP-IMC de-briefing session at Mittah Seperepere Convention Centre in Kimberley at 14h00 where all Ministers, led by Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa, will convene to discuss the projects visited on the day.
The PEP-IMC is composed of the Deputy President and various Ministers who are responsible for Public Employment Programmes and their Director- Generals.
In South Africa, Public Employment Programmes are implemented under the auspices of the Expanded Public Works Programme (EPWP), and provide training and short term to medium term work opportunities for the unskilled, poor and unemployed South Africans. The Programme is also committed to the positive socio-economic impact within South African communities.
The rationale behind the formation of the PEP-IMC is to provide a high-level and collective leadership to achieve better synergy among Public Employment Programmes and to ensure that the government achieves its target of creating 6 million work opportunities by 2019.
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