Mr Mayor, answer us

I AM currently a intern at the NMBM.

This letter is addressed to the one who sends out the notices of vacancies.

Thank you for making jobs available. I have two concerns. The jobs the municipality is making available are mainly [to be filled by] internal candidates, so how does the man in the street stand a chance of getting employed if it’s only internal appointments being made?

The next concern is: as an intern do I qualify for being considered for internal appointments or what?

I have applied for so many internal jobs I have lost count.

When you apply, they give you a slip with a reference number for you to make inquiries about the particular job.

I have lots of those slips dating as far back as September so I decided to phone Brister House last week to query whether those jobs had been filled.

I found out to my complete astonishment they are only starting to capture possible candidates for the vacancies – they have a huge backlog.

Vacancies are being released every second week.

So if they are still working on September applications, when will November’s vacancies be filled?

Mr Mayor, can you please answer?

Jonene Cornelius, Tiryville, Uitenhage