Ekurhuleni: High hopes trashed as millions promised to community contractors evaporate
File An Ekurhuleni waste management project to upgrade small-scale community operators into viable businesses has ended in acrimony. The city laid out R1.2 billion – but community operators complain they were short-changed by companies appointed to mentor them. At fault is the city's failure to monitor companies which provided mentoring, or to keep watch on how the funding was allocated. Month after month, John Buthelezi (not his real name) and his little team emptied bins, picked up litter, cleaned the streets of Ekurhuleni and emptied containers. Buthelezi had been promised that after fi...
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