All stakeholders raised concerns regarding the conditions of employment at Medupi power station. These included, subcontractors not adhering to labour legislation, workers being given rotten food, importation of foreign labour, and lack of employment for local young people. The Community was concerned that there was not enough done to ensure that subcontractors transfer skills to the local workers and majority of the local workers were employed as unskilled labour in the project. Contractors were using labour brokers and not paying decent wages. Eskom informed the Committee that 90% of workers were from South Africa and 48% were from within 70km radius of the Lephalale area. Hitachi and Siemens have invested in local training colleges in order to produce the required skills for the project. The challenge remained the shortage of welders, as the project required 55 000 specialist welders.