Ipeleneng tender war in Mochudi

Monday, March 10, 2014

Lucrative P6,000 a month Ipelegeng tender auctions are causing bare knuckle fights in Mochudi as ambitious groups go to war for the well-paying jobs of supplying Ipelegeng workers with phaphatha and fona.

It does not take require a genius to find out why the Ipelegeng tender is being so bitterly fought for in Mochudi; at P6,000 a month that job pays an ordinary villager the equivalent salary of a university graduate. On one side are the Junior Certificate (JC) and Form Five dropouts queuing for the tenders and on the other hand are the village paupers and the elderly, who believe the tenders were introduced to help them survive.

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Ipeleneng tender war in Mochudi

Lucrative P6,000 a month Ipelegeng tender auctions are causing bare knuckle fights in Mochudi as ambitious groups go to war for the well-paying jobs of supplying Ipelegeng workers with phaphatha and fona.