Department of Employment and Labour

COLUMN: Cape Argus columnist Michael Bagraim writes that as the lucky few who still have jobs in South Africa return to work in 2023, we have been exposed ...

When many of these retired and retrenched engineers offered to come back and help, the parastatal was not interested. The collapse of the generating capacity is partially because of this whole sour retrenchment which took place a few years back. Second, during the festive period, the UIF commissioner went to one of the labour centres as part of his oversight duties. Only after a public outcry did the Minister of Employment and Labour step in and put a stop to this folly. This was not money owned by the department but money collected from employees to ensure their UIF would be paid when needed. It was stated by the UIF Commissioner they were going to invest the money into this hollow company so they could create thousands of jobs.