
Unemployment / Unemployment
Happiness Koma
Happiness Koma
Limpopo Province
Sekhukhune District
Fetakgomo Tubatse Local Municipality
Moshira village
07 May 2025
Unemployment / Unemployment
Twickenham Mine does not take us as human beings because we residents of the Moshira, we
lack Learnerships, Internships and jobs. They tell us that there is no Moshira on their lands that
they mine, But they are sending people to come and lie that they are looking for people to study
for learnerships and internships.
On 03 May 2024 they sent one of their CEF member Mrs. X who is the representative of the
Magobading community to convene a meeting of all the youth of Moshira, Sehunyane and
Magobading villages, this meeting was held at the disability care center the place known but it’s
motto “ Let’s endure disability” it is located in the middle of the villages of Moshira, Sehunyane
and Magobading. When we arrived, we were informed that there are jobs available in the
disability center, anyone needing the job has to contribute R50 for the job. The jobs prgram is
called Epwc and leads to employment in offices, hospitals and police services. We were
informed that the money was for the disability owner to make a Sars letter because he does not
have a tax number.
My question was that since I have been working there for years, how will paying for a job work
for us because it is customary and we know we do not pay for job placements. We enquired
whether the previous funders of the centre did not request the Sars letter.
This EPWC project was working and stopped last year. The response to questions was that
SARS has expired and they need money from the people to register with SARS and be able to
reopen and have a functioning center. We questioned if the owner will be able to pay people
who will work at the centre as he was getting money every year but fails to pay workers and he
will fail to pay people again.
Corruption in other areas is still very high in a sense that people are still paying to get job
placement. If it is not job placement it is the SARS number has expired.The owner wants to
renew the SARS number using community money.