South Africa: CWP to Create One Million Work Opportunities

Pretoria — The Community Work Programme (CWP) aims to create one million work opportunities by the 2018/19 financial year, covering all local municipalities, Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs Minister Lechesa Tsenoli announced on Friday.

"The department will spend R2.5 billion in 2015/16 to provide 202 000 work opportunities and R3.7 billion in 2016/17 to provide one million work opportunities across local municipalities," the minister said. Minister Tsenoli was speaking during a Post State of the Nation Address (SoNA) briefing on local government.

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