The Minister of Public Works and Infrastructure
(1) The Department has not received any report that there is a DPWI staff being mistreated by any company contracted to DPWI.
(2) The use of local labour was not a prerequisite or a condition of Facilities Management contract.
(3) The Facilities Management contractor currently employs two hundred (200) general workers including EPWP staff, of the two hundred (200), one hundred and eighty three (183) are from Cape Town. The Contractor also has a core staff compliment of thirty four (34) individuals of which twenty six (26) are from Cape Town.
(4) The Facilities Management contractor reported that six (6) general workers/operators, four (4) team leaders, one (1) driver, two (2) irrigation specialists, one (1) quantity surveyor and one (1) site administrator have been brought from Johannesburg to Cape Town.
(5) No consequence management is applicable as the Facilities Management contractor is not contractually required to employ local labour.