GAUTENG Premier Panyaza Lesufi’s Nasi Ispani is once again being questioned!
ActionSA is demanding to see the hiring documents of all those hired through the jobs programme on suspicion that the ANC is being used to lure voters.
But the provincial government is refusing to show them the documents.
ActionSa Gauteng chairman Funzi Ngobeni said they had made an application this week, under the Promotion of Access to Information Act (PAIA), but it was rejected.
"From the outset, ActionSA has maintained that the Nasi Ispani programme is nothing more than a PR exercise by Premier Lesufi to make it appear that he is tackling the high unemployment caused by his own ruling party in the province.
"The programme was meant as a tool to hire ANC cadres to campaign for them in the upcoming 2024 elections," said Ngobeni.
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He asked that if Lesufi and the province had nothing to hide in terms of who was hired through the scheme, why were they not willing to provide his party and the Gauteng public with the necessary documentation to prove that ANC cadres were not hired.
"As announced during our press conference in July, that ActionSA will now file an internal appeal as provided for by PAIA to ensure that the ANC does not abuse the scheme for its own nefarious ends," Ngobeni said.
Ngobeni claimed that ActionSA is aware that Lesufi and the ruling party are desperate to retain power in the province.
"Of the more than 1,2 million people who applied for the Nasi Ispani scheme, 950 000 South African youth were left out,” said Ngobeni.
He said that Gauteng’s unemployment rate, where more than two million people are unemployed, won’t be solved by "gimmick schemes” such as Nasi Ispani.
