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ECONOMIC growth, coupled with job creation, is vital for building sustainable cities. As much as it is our responsibility to ensure we create an enabling environment that attracts investment and skills, we also want to broaden access to these opportunities to those residents who are excluded from the labour market, but who are desperate to earn a decent living.

Today I am pleased to announce that as from October 31, the City will be offering registered job seekers free MyCiTi bus rides to support them in their efforts to find employment.

When Council adopted the City’s budget for the 2017/18 financial year, we made provision for up to R6.6 million to subsidise free MyCiTi bus rides for registered job seekers in Cape Town. In keeping with this promise, we will provide a free Myconnect card and two free journeys on the MyCiTi bus every week to support job seekers.

Unemployed residents qualify if they are already registered on the City’s Expanded Public Works Programme job seekers’ database. The concession applies to those job seekers who are registered at Subcouncils 1,3, 9, 10, 12, 15, 16, 23 or 24. Job seekers who qualify will receive a free Myconnect card, worth R35, loaded with a special travel package. This will allow two free one-way journeys every week on any MyCiTi route. This includes changing from one bus or route to another to reach a destination.

Travel can take place on any week day starting between 9am and 10am or between 2pm and 3pm. The journey can end outside of these times, but job seekers must ensure that they start their journey within these time periods.

There will be 100 000 cards available between October 31 and November 20, 2017, or until all of the Myconnect cards have been issued.

This initiative is our first pilot project which we will monitor until June 30, 2018. Applicants must apply at the subcouncil office where they are registered on the job seekers’ database by presenting their identity document and completing an application form. Venues for the free cards:

Subcouncil 1 office, corner of Grosvenor and Hermes Avenue, Saxonsea, Atlantis.

Summer Greens Community Hall, Tinkers Road, Summer Greens.

Subcouncil 9 office, Site B, Khayelitsha Shopping Centre.

Khayelitsha Training Centre, corner of Lwandle and Phendula Crescent, Khayelitsha.

Lentegeur Administrative Office, corner of Melkbos and Merrydale roads, Lentegeur.

Brooklyn Library, Koeberg Road, Brooklyn.

11th Floor, 44 Wale Street, Cape Town.

Roads Depot, 17 Main Road, Hout Bay.

Hangberg Sports and Recreation Centre, Karbonkel Road, Hangberg, Hout Bay.

Lentegeur Administrative Office, corner of Melkbos and Merrydale Roads, Lentegeur

Kuyasa Library, Walter Sisulu Road, Mandela Park, Khayelitsha.

For more information or assistance, call the Transport Information Centre on 0800 65 64 63 – available 24/7. Brett Herron