JOHANNESBURG - Public Works Minister, Dean Macpherson, has suspended Expanded Public Works Programme funding to Matjhabeng Local Municipality pending a full investigation.
This follows reports that politically connected municipal workers are receiving inflated salaries through the EPWP.
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Some workers allegedly receive salaries as high as R30,000 per month, while others are paid as little R1,500.
Macpherson says the EPWP was established to provide short-term, skills-based work opportunities, not to serve as a a vehicle for political patronage.