Subcouncil resolution details

Subcouncil 14

Agenda item no

14SUB 10/4/2021

Subject

EXPANDED PUBLIC WORKS PROGRAMME(EPWP): MONTHLY JOBSEEKER REPORT FOR SUBCOUNCIL 14 FOR MARCH 2021

Meeting date

Monday, April 19, 2021

Resolution

Noted

Date closed

Monday, November 22, 2021

Resolution detail

The Subcouncil Manager said that the Report on Expanded Public Works Programme (EPWP) on page 92 is for noting. The total number of jobseekers in Subcouncil 14 is 46 608, the report also looks down in the jobseeker availability per ward. For example, in ward 37, 71 people are of a cooling off period which means that these people in the last three months worked for the City of Cape Town. The total number of invalid contact information is 6 870, which is almost 15% of the total jobseeker.

Cllr Yozi said that the report is generalized which might result into providing information that is not accurate. Certain areas in their wards are listed under different Subcouncil and he does not understand how is that done.

He advised for Maps to be used when capturing to ensure that people are located to the correct Subcouncil.

Mr. Daniels welcomed Cllr Yozi’s comment and said that there might be errors in capturing, however, the error is also caused by people giving wrong addresses. Some errors are due to transfers, most them are picked up during randomisation.

Cllr Jacobs said that Solid Waste Department had an advert for people to fill in jobseeker forms and submit those to the depots and the problem is that they were not informed of how the allocation of those vacancies will be filled.

Mr. Daniels said that people are allocated to a ward based on address.

Cllr Ngxumza said that even if exclusion report is followed for a project there is also a requirement that the people employed should reside in a specific area. He said that he has experienced in few projects that people who were confident to be on the database were not on that database of that particular department. The Mayco member for Urban Management promised to put together all the information so that there is no separate database for Solid Waste and Social Development. He agreed with Cllr Yozi and said that there is a problem at the randomisation office because it cannot be that the same mistake of randomizing people who are not from a particular ward is constantly done. Wrong location of people should not be a common problem for all wards, he requested that at some point there should be an engagement with the randomisation office to find out why we are experiencing the same problem. He added that at a certain stage the former director and public participation conducted an awareness programme to assist with database registration in different areas, he proposed for a similar programme to update the system.

Cllr Zondani said that there are errors in calculating in the report as in his ward her has a project of women for change in some wards and the number recorded in the report is 14 while they are 21. He said a process should to be used to guide the officials to capture the right information so the Subcouncil can be confident of the reports they submit.

Cllr Makasi noted all comments from councillors and said that the problem might be an issue of officials not having correct data on issues concerning our sub council hence there are a lot of errors in the report and there is not accuracy.

Cllr Zondani noted the report.

There was unanimous agreement with the resolution.

RESOLVED

It was resolved that the Report on Expanded Public Works Programme (EPWP): Monthly Jobseekers report for Subcouncil 14 for March 2021 BE NOTED with the comment made by the Cllr’s of inviting officials from the EPWP office.

Action: ANTHONY DANIELS