Chair, one of the mandates of EPWP is to equip beneficiaries with skills that will enable them to seek for employment at a later stage.
Minister, what percentage have been equipped with skills, especially in the scarce skills department, and how many have been assisted by your department to seek for further employment? Thank you.
Hon Chairperson, first of all, the EPWP money that we receive to distribute to the various spheres of government, that money is meant for payment of salaries, what is not included in that money is kills development. As EPWP we then have to apply to National Skills Fund to give that money to various sectors to train people in those programmes. But this is not the only training programme, there are various sectors, the environment sector and the social sector, where we get at least I think R268 million per year from the National Skills Fund to include that.
