Cape Town’s all-women road-repair teams are winning!
Transport for Cape Town has won yet another award for the Most Innovative Women Training Programme, which has trained a number of female road-repair teams as part of the Expanded Public Works Programme within Transport for Cape Town.
Brett Herron, mayoral committee member for transport, said that ‘Women at Work’ had been nominated for the fourth annual Women in Construction Awards which took place in Johannesburg last week.
He said that all-women teams had been appointed and started work in March repairing some of Cape Town’s roads, paths and stormwater infrastructure in Heideveld, Manenberg, Tambo Village, Athlone and Surrey Estate.
Other teams were assigned to places such as Ndabeni, Fish Hoek and Kuils River.
“I am confident that this will be recognised on a national level as one of the most advanced and game-changing gender transformation projects in the country‚” said Herron.
He further mentioned that the women-only road repair teams were the brainchild of Transport for Cape Town’s Training Academy which aims to develop the course material, training modules and selection processes for the women participating in the Women-at-Work gender transformation programme.
“I want to commend all of these women who are fixing potholes and foot-ways across our city, TCT, and the Training Academy. I also want to make special mention of the officials at our local road depots who are enthusiastically supporting these teams. The City is committed to empowering women in the workplace and this programme clearly demonstrates that we can achieve that with a clear cision and teamwork,” said Councillor Herron.
Source: City of Cape Town