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Public works projects get SA working
Wednesday, 15 February 2012 07:43
The government’s public employment programmes are growing at such a rate that by 2014 there will be the equivalent of about 1.4m people in public works jobs at any one time. This article analyses what the employment under the public employment schemes that are now gathering steam actually means.
- See, Business Day, print edition, page 4
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