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After a two-year battle, a small non-profit is victorious as the Pretoria high court sets aside all 11 contracts in government’s flagship jobs programme.

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Government ‘punishes’ non-profits in charge of the Community Work Programme

For the last three months the department of co-operative governance and traditional affairs (Cogta) has not paid the non-profits which manage the Community Work Programme, claiming that they have failed to account for how government’s money was spent.

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Broken trust at the Mvula Trust

In "Community Work Programme agent gave 300 contracts to brother's company", we reveal how a Community Work Programme agent handed R32-million in government contracts to her brother's company. We also told you she did something similar before. Here’s what happened.

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On the trail of the CWP’s orange gear

Supplying protective clothing to the Community Work Programme is big business. In the Eastern Cape, it appears, nepotism rules.

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A multi-billion rand programme yet no protective clothing

Bongani Fuzile | the Daily Dispatch
January 30, 2020

Some Community Work Programme workers lack tools to do their jobs but are too scared to complain for fear of losing their jobs.

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Who’s eating the Community Work Programme? Explore the data

Government spends R4-billion a year on the programme. But who is getting fat off the contracts for tools, materials, protective clothing and training? We want YOU to help us investigate.

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Cogta “asked SSA” to investigate journalist

While investigating government’s Community Work Programme, amaBhungane was handed a covert recording from 2017 of a senior government official claiming he asked the spooks to investigate collusion between contractors and a journalist. Their crime? Asking tough questions about a programme that government now admits is broken.

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Update: R13bn Community Work Programme declared ‘constitutionally invalid and unlawful’

Government ‘punishes’ non-profits in charge of the Community Work Programme

Broken trust at the Mvula Trust

On the trail of the CWP’s orange gear

A multi-billion rand programme yet no protective clothing

Who’s eating the Community Work Programme? Explore the data

Cogta “asked SSA” to investigate journalist

Who’s eating Cogta’s R13bn Community Work Programme?

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