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GroundUp reports that over 50 Expanded Public Works Programme (EPWP) workers protested outside Noninzi Luzipho Building in Port Elizabeth on Friday afternoon, claiming that they were owed back pay to 1 May 2020.
Dressed in orange safety vests with “Covid-19 Hybride Force” printed on the back, their duties include screening, identifying vulnerable homes across the city’s 60 wards, as well as visiting spaza shops in townships and other informal traders to educate them about the Covid-19 regulations. They signed contracts on 28 April. General workers are apparently meant to get R160 per day for 20 days and team leaders R180 per day. Nomaxabiso Mondile from ward 45 in KwaNobuhle, Uitenhage, said: “We were promised the first salary will be paid on 25 May. We were not paid and again told we will get it on 25 June. When we asked, they said there was someone with Covid-19 at payroll so they could not process salaries. We approached them again on 28 July demanding that all workers be paid. They asked us to give them two days. Even last night, we waited.”
- Read the full original of the above report by Thamsanqa Mbovane at GroundUp
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