Minister, I welcome your response. Your department is the custodian of the EPW Programme. But every department and municipality recruits beneficiaries to the programme as they wish. For example, the City of Tshwane has started recruiting through a lottery recruitment system.
I wish to ask you to explain how is your department intending to modernise and ensure best practice in the EPW Programme is reproducing across the country so that its reputation and credibility improves going forward? Thank you, Chairperson.
Hon Chairperson, certainly there are some of the stakeholders that are not following the guidelines. But the Department of Public Works received the grant from national