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Johannesburg. — President Jacob Zuma has pledged that the ruling African National Congress will create six million job opportunities should it continue to be the national government for the next five years.
Speaking at The New Age breakfast that was broadcast on SABC 2 yesterday morning, Mr Zuma emphasised the phrase “work opportunities” twice.
Work opportunities is the term used by the government to describe the part-time jobs it has created for people mainly through its extended public works programme.
This programme employs people on a temporary basis often to do menial work such as street sweeping and the cutting of road verges.
The New Age breakfast was held following the release of the ANC’s 2014 national election manifesto at the weekend.
Mr Zuma committed his party to the National Development Plan, especially the economic chapters that had been a bone of contention between it and its alliance partner, the Congress of South African Trade Unions.
He said the NDP had support by an “overwhelming majority of stakeholders”.
However, Mr Zuma left the back door open for the NDP to be changed by calling it a “living document” and that Cosatu and the South African Communist Party were welcome to engage on the economic issues.
Mr Zuma quoted the NDP, saying that the unemployment rate needed to be cut from the current 25 percent to 14 percent by 2020 and then down to 6 percent by 2030.
To achieve this, the NDP said a gross domestic product growth rate of 5,4 percent needed to be achieved. — BDLive.
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