Dear Editor
The DA is deeply concerned by the results of the latest Quarterly Labour Force Survey (QLFS), showing that unemployment continues to increase in South Africa – showing that there is immediate urgency to implement what the DA has been demanding: make the economic reforms necessary for growth and jobs.
The DA has launched an immediately implementable six-point plan to grow South Africa’s economy and ensure that every South African has access to the dignity of a job.
It is abundantly clear: the ANC’s economic policies are not working and are only driving more and more South Africans into misery. We cannot do the same thing over and over and expect a different result, which is why the DA’s plan to turbocharge the economy is so important.
It’s high time South Africa tried something new, moving away from job-killing policies and isolationist foreign policy.
The DA’s plan to turbocharge economic growth is the way forward to unlock the entrepreneurial spirit of South Africans by freeing them of bureaucracy, red-tape, and job-killing race-based legislation. And with electricity security, functional local governments and reducing crime, we will see investment increase and jobs be created.
The old ways of doing things will not get South Africans working again. ANC economic policies are designed to benefit a politically-connected elite, rather than those who have actually been excluded from economic opportunity. This must change.
South Africans will continue to struggle for work if small businesses have to comply with the same regulations as massive corporations, or operate against headwinds of BEE under cronyism.
South Africans cannot remain locked out of the economy.
The road forward for the DA’s plan to turbocharge the economy includes taking this economic plan to every level of government. We welcome that the DA Leader will take forward this fight, for all South Africans.
The time for talkshops is long past. The time to take action is now.
Regards
Michael Bagraim MP
DA Spokesperson on Employment & Labour