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THE people of Siteki say they are failing to get jobs at the new high school for the deaf at Matsetsa.
The school has just finished its recruitment drive, which means the Siteki residents will not get jobs there.
This was confirmed by Logongolweni MP Joseph Souza, who said he has communicated the bad needs to the residents.
“I have since learnt that by October of 2009, when the minister made the undertaking of considering reserving space for residents here, the recruitment process had long been completed.
“The reality is no one from the constituency has been employed at the School for the Deaf High yet we’ve also been hard hit by the challenge of unemployment here,” he said.
The Lugongolweni MP said he received the sad news from the Lubombo Regional Education Office that they had already employed teachers and labourers such as cleaners, receptionist and other staff members.
“There basically is no space now for our people there,” he said.
But residents are not convinced and want him to dig more into it, especially because some claimed they had been turned back on the premise that they were ‘too old’ for employment at the school.
MP Souza had raised the concern in parliament during budget debate into the ministry of education and the response then was that residents under Matsetsa and other surrounding areas would be considered for employment at the school.
Minister of Education and Training Wilson Future Ntshangase said he had consulted and informed the MP of his findings.
“I informed him there was, unfortunately, no longer any space at the school as recruitment had since been completed.
“Previously, I had the misconception that space would be availed for residents under his inkhundla but this was not to be as per the officials’ confirmation,” Ntshangase said.
The minister was disturbed though that residents were now blaming him in the whole debacle.
He asked the MP to get in touch with his officials or the ministry’s principal secretary Pat Muir.
THE people of Siteki say they are failing to get jobs at the new high school for the deaf at Matsetsa.
The school has just finished its recruitment drive, which means the Siteki residents will not get jobs there.
This was confirmed by Logongolweni MP Joseph Souza, who said he has communicated the bad needs to the residents.
“I have since learnt that by October of 2009, when the minister made the undertaking of considering reserving space for residents here, the recruitment process had long been completed.
“The reality is no one from the constituency has been employed at the School for the Deaf High yet we’ve also been hard hit by the challenge of unemployment here,” he said.
The Lugongolweni MP said he received the sad news from the Lubombo Regional Education Office that they had already employed teachers and labourers such as cleaners, receptionist and other staff members.
“There basically is no space now for our people there,” he said.
But residents are not convinced and want him to dig more into it, especially because some claimed they had been turned back on the premise that they were ‘too old’ for employment at the school.
MP Souza had raised the concern in parliament during budget debate into the ministry of education and the response then was that residents under Matsetsa and other surrounding areas would be considered for employment at the school.
Minister of Education and Training Wilson Future Ntshangase said he had consulted and informed the MP of his findings.
“I informed him there was, unfortunately, no longer any space at the school as recruitment had since been completed.
“Previously, I had the misconception that space would be availed for residents under his inkhundla but this was not to be as per the officials’ confirmation,” Ntshangase said.
The minister was disturbed though that residents were now blaming him in the whole debacle.
He asked the MP to get in touch with his officials or the ministry’s principal secretary Pat Muir.