{"id":197652,"date":"2019-02-27T06:30:00","date_gmt":"2019-02-27T04:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/197652\/we-want-permanent-employment\/"},"modified":"2019-02-27T10:18:00","modified_gmt":"2019-02-27T08:18:00","slug":"we-want-permanent-employment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2019\/02\/27\/we-want-permanent-employment\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018We want permanent employment\u2019 – disgruntled workers"},"content":{"rendered":"

While the February council meeting went on inside the Germiston Council Chambers on Thursday, protestors marched outside, demanding permanent employment from the metro.<\/p>\n

Members of the Expanded Public Works Programme (EPWP), especially those from the community response team and health, and members who belonged to a project entitled Lungile Mtshali, which fell under the solid waste department, want answers from the metro.<\/p>

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Thami Mbatha and Barrinton Makamba, two of the leaders from Lungile Mtshali, spoke to the GCN about their frustrations with the metro.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe were hired by the metro for the project in 2014 and then we all received termination letters in late 2015,\u201d said Mbatha.<\/p>

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\u201cWe have been trying since then to be reinstated.\u201d<\/p>\n