Analyst - 'Unlikely government can meet employment targets'
A political analyst feels it is unlikely that government would be able to meet the employment targets outlined in the ANC's election manifesto.
President Cyril Ramaphosa launched the party's 2019 election manifesto in Durban, on Saturday.
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He says the ANC will try and create around 275 000 jobs a year by implementing reforms in key sectors.
"We will implement reforms in the economic sectors that have the greatest potential to grow and create jobs. We will take measures to lower the costs of doing bus in South Africa, increase productivity and improve competitiveness," the President says.
But analyst Imraan Buccus feels there are too many factors that could prevent this from being achieved.
"One needs to also bear in mind that government - in a post-colonial context - is highly contested by the market so the market pulls in a particular way, the left forces in the States pull in a particular way and there are a range of other constraints that impact South Africa's ability to deliver," he says.
He says it's also important to remember that South Africa has a large unskilled worker base,
"That ability to capacitate and educate the base of our social strata remains critically important if we want to create jobs".