JOB CREATION BY LABOUR

The Labour Job Creation Trust (LJCT) launched a R200 000 recycling project of the Centre for Uplifting Rural Economies (CURE) in Bloemfontein at the end of February.

This project, part of the LJCT implementation phase, which will recycle waste, including paper, cardboard boxes, cans and bottles will create 40 sustainable jobs. This will assist in alleviating poverty and unemployment levels in the Mangaung Municipal area.

It has close links with an initiative already in progress and will strengthen this process and provide the necessary managerial and other resources to ensure compliance with appropriate standards and regulations, like health and safety.

The LJCT kick-started the implementation of projects in Baleni, Tzaneen in Limpopo Province, followed by the Dongwe Community Forum project in the Eastern Cape Province. So far there are 30 projects that are at an implementation stage, creating more than 7640 job opportunities in all provinces and more than 60 are currently under consideration by the Trustees.

These projects come from the more than 3 000 applications received by the Labour Job Creation Trust from a variety of organisations like the non-governmental and community based organisations. The trust has so far raised more than R89 million and more projects are in the process of being approved.