SONA2019: A recent survey shows that most South Africans want President Cyril Ramaphosa to fix the country’s unemployment crisis as a matter of urgency.
On Thursday night, Ramaphosa will deliver his first State of the Nation Address as a democratically elected president, after clinching the elections for the ANC, with a reduced 57.5% majority in the general elections which were held in May.In the survey, unemployment was the key issue highlighted for Ramaphosa to deal with as a key issue ahead of his Sona on Thursday night.
"In the case of Labour, we have decided to add Employment – to demonstrate our country is on a journey to create jobs," Ramaphosa said when he announced his Cabinet in May. Reza Omar, the strategic research director at Citizen Surveys, said with more than 230 000 jobs lost in first quarter of 2019, there was lots of work to be done by the Ramaphosa administration.
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