CPWs remember lost colleagues
The community workers could not attend their colleagues' funerals because it was too far.
Employees of the government’s CWP (Community Works Programme) around Carletonville held a function to remember their colleagues who had recently passed away.
“I decided to remember our colleagues after hearing in January that one of the women had died after an illness over the festive season,” says a CWP coordinator, Mr Siviwe Nogaga.
He says that although the CWP workers “became like family” because they worked so closely together over time, the colleagues of the departed often cannot attend their funerals because they are usually far away, like in the Eastern Cape.
The CWP workers of wards 1, 16, 18 and 28, and those working at Madala Site at Water’s Edge paid for the event at the municipal lapa in Carletonville on 18 March, lighting candles to remember their late colleagues. The names of the 51 CWP workers who had died since they started working together around 2010 were printed and read out. Numerous dignitaries, like ward councillors, also attended.
