If you clean a government hospital, guard a public building, fix a municipal road or provide IT support to a department — but you’re not actually employed by the state — this story could change your life.
The EFF has introduced an Insourcing Bill in Parliament that could force government departments
to stop outsourcing essential services and instead hire workers directly. The party argues this will end
exploitation, cut out middlemen, and clamp down on tender corruption. But critics warn it could put even more strain on an already stretched public wage bill.