NELSPRUIT GIVES JOBLESS PEOPLE A BREAK ON ELECTION DAY

NELSPRUIT Aug 29 Sapa

Instead of using students and pensioners to man voting stations
on November 1, the Nelspruit Transitional Local Council has oped
to use the unemployed on election day.

Nelspruit is the largest TLC in Mpumalanga and will need at
least 1050 people to man its 70 voting stations on November 1,
African Eye News Service reported on Tuesday.

The voting station operators would be members of the South
African Unemployed Workers' Union living within the greater
Nelspruit TLC, according to town clerk Roelf Kotze.

He warned, however, that the town council would not "blindly"
employ someone who was unemployed.

"The presiding officer, for example, who will be in charge of
the voting station, needs to have certain specifications as set at
national level," he explained.

Kotze said the council would advertise the jobs and the local
SAUWU branch would compile a list of interested members. The list
would be submitted to the council for selection.