PRIORITY
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OVER THE NEXT 5 YEARS, WE WILL:
Put South Africa to work: Our Jobs Plan
• Expand public employment to sustain 2.5 million work
opportunities delivering public goods and services in
While job creation has shown positive growth
communities. This includes work done through the
since the end of the COVID-19 pandemic,
Presidential Employment Stimulus, funding to civil society
through non-profit companies and organisations to provide
the unemployment rate, especially among
work opportunities; expand and institutionalise the National
young people, remains extremely high.
Youth Service in partnership with the SANDF, and work
opportunities for unemployed graduates,
There is no shortage of work to be done to
• Increase support for small enterprises, entrepreneurs and
cooperatives, especially in townships and villages, providing
make South Africa a better place. In every
additional one million work opportunities, with set-asides for
street, community and village, people are
women, youth and persons with disabilities.
ready and willing to contribute to social
• Engage the private sector on job creation, to protect jobs
and economic development. Through
and contribute to national efforts to create employment and
get South Africans working.
public and social employment programmes,
industrialisation and support for small
• Continue to promote and monitor employment equity to
ensure that black people, women and persons with
enterprises and cooperatives, we can create
disabilities are represented in the public and private sectors,
jobs at a much faster pace.
in the professions and artisanal sectors towards the growth
of a vibrant, non-racial and non-sexist middle strata, critical
to national development.
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