Jozi@Work to put Region A to work
04-03-2015
 

Jozi@Work has progressed to a stage where City officials are now detailing available work packages under the co-production programme.
 

About 400 representatives of cooperatives and small businesses recently attended three separate Jozi@Work Regional Forums in Region A. These forums were hosted at three different venues where Johannesburg City Parks & Zoo officials tabled some work packages under the Jozi@Work programme currently holding work packages valued at just over R1 billion.

Some of the work packages by City Parks & Zoo entail the manual digging of graves, funeral ushering services, which involves tracing and locating graves, allocating graves, as well as grave-levelling at specified cemeteries.
 

“When you – the representatives of interested entities fill-in your expression of interest forms, you need to indicate what equipment you have and what you don’t have so that the Capability Support Agents (CSAs) can be brought in to ensure that you have all the required tools to get the job done,” Tebogo Motlogelwa, Deputy Director of Planning, Profiling and Data Management in Region A, recently told would-be service providers at the Diepsloot Youth Centre Hall.
 

Businesses and cooperatives that are keen on the work packages were urged to complete the expression of interest forms, which must be accompanied by copies of the shareholders’ identity documents, proof of residence and business profiles.

But some of the residents in attendance expressed concern that they might miss the set deadline of February 5 to deliver their completed forms at number 300 15th Road, Midrand for consideration. 
 

“How will we submit the expression of interest forms if we still do not have our company registration documents back from the Companies and Intellectual Property Commission? And who can help us with the writing of business profiles?” a resident asked Motlogelwa.
 

In his response, Motlogelwa said the City would be able to get the company information from the ID numbers submitted in the expression of interest forms. He added that residents needed to approach the Department of Economic Development for assistance regarding business profiles.
 

Another would-be service provider wanted to know if Jozi@Work was aimed at benefiting only “comrades”.

Motlogelwa said the programme was not designed to benefit politically aligned community members, but open to all residents of Johannesburg. 
 

“This is a programme designed to empower Johannesburg community members to partner with the City in the delivery of municipal services – such as maintenance, cleaning and repairing, among others. Plans are in place to ensure that corruption in prevented in all the processes of Jozi@Work,” he said.  

Names of the entities that will be allocated work for the presented packages will be announced on February 25.