NATIONAL ASSEMBLY
FOR WRITTEN REPLY
QUESTION NO 1370
DATE REPLY SUBMITTED: MONDAY, 27 JUNE 2011
DATE OF PUBLICATION IN INTERNAL QUESTION PAPER: FRIDAY, 27 MAY 2011
(INTERNAL QUESTION PAPER: NO 13 â 2011)
Mr J J Mc Gluwa (ID) asked the Minister of Transport:
(1) What is the detailed breakdown of the 70 000 proposed job
opportunities to be created in the 2010-11 financial year in terms of
his departmentâs multi-billion rand road maintenance programme,
(2) whether these jobs will only provide temporary employment; if not,
why not; if so, what are the relevant details?
NW1550E
REPLY:
The Minister of Transport:
(1) The Sâhamba Sonke Programme (Moving Together: Accelerating Rural
Development Through Access and Mobility) addresses various issues,
including unemployment by creating work opportunities and Full Time
Equivalent (FTEâs) jobs through the implementation of road
infrastructure capital and maintenance projects.
A work opportunity refers to paid work created for an individual on an
Expanded Public Works Programme (EPWP) project for any period of time.
The same person can be employed on different projects and each period
of employment will be counted as a job opportunity.
A Full Time Equivalent (FTE) Job refers to one person-year of
employment. One person year is equivalent to 230 person days of work
where person-years of employment equal total number of person days of
employment created for targeted labour during the year, divided by 230
days. For task-rated workers, tasks completed are used as a proxy for
8 hours of work per day.
Based on the business plan, and information supplied by Provinces to
the Department of Transport, the following is a breakdown of job
opportunities and jobs per Province for the 2011/12 financial year:
|Province |Number of Job |Number of Full Time |
| |Opportunities |Equivalent Jobs |
|Eastern Cape |32 965 |14 333 |
|Free State |10 370 |4 509 |
|Gauteng |5 636 |2 450 |
|KwaZulu-Natal |57 000 |24 783 |
|Limpopo |23 976 |10 424 |
|Mpumalanga |15 740 |6 843 |
|Northern Cape |1 568 |682 |
|North West |6 427 |2 794 |
|Western Cape |1 375 |598 |
|TOTALS |155 057 |67 416 |
(2) Construction jobs are temporary by nature. Sustainable jobs are
created from periodic routine maintenance work such as cleaning of
drains and grass cutting. Out of the estimated 155Â 057 jobs to be
created, a total of 67Â 416 jobs shall be Full Time Equivalent jobs.