Deputy Speaker, on behalf of the EFF, I move without notice:
That the House -
1) notes that whilst they face the same dangerous and life-threatening conditions, firefighters under the Working on Fire Programme are faced with terrible working conditions;
2) further notes that the average Working on Fire firefighter works seven days a week, nine hours a day, with overtime which often goes unpaid and some have been temporary employees for many years;
3) also notes the average firefighters earn almost five times more than Working on Fire Programme firefighters, for the same job;
4) further notes that an average firefighter earns over R8 000 per month while Working on Fire Programme employees earn R86,00 per day, about R1 800 per month, half of which goes to transport;
5) notes that the Working on Fire Programme was set up in 2003 and introduced as a government initiative to create jobs and alleviate poverty, but it is nothing but another project where mostly black and the working class work for the maximum benefit of white monopoly capital;
6) further notes that people from underprivileged communities are served on a silver platter by our government to monopoly capital where they are exploited as cheap labour, overworked and underpaid;
7) calls upon the Minister of Labour to urgently look into the matter and abolish this exploitation;
8) notes that the Freedom Charter says ``There shall be a national minimum wage'', which the ANC-led government has failed to implement to this day; and
9) calls for a national living wage across all sectors in society and to punish harshly all those that mistreat workers and take advantage of the structural unemployment in this country.
Are there any objections to the motion?
We object.
The motion falls away.