President Cyril Ramaphosa has called on young South Africans to lead the road to recovery after Covid-19.
“I am throwing a challenge to young people to begin to see that post Covid-19 is a new platform. We need to set up different ways of running our economy, of ownership of our economy, of managing our economy and of even production,” he said.
He was participating in a Youth Day panel discussion with young entrepreneurs who called for more government support and who also spoke of their struggles to access government programmes meant to support small businesses.The president said technology is going to underpin nearly everything that will have to be done to recover from the pandemic.
“There has to be life beyond Covid-19. We are looking forward to innovation, creativity, new ideas from young people and we want young people who are going to speak out and step forward,” he said.Among the opportunities would be a creation of a new economy with new sector and subsectors, he said. He encouraged young people to contribute to this vision, including the creative industries which, he said, have to explode.
“All we need to do is to give young people that lift and I know they will just start flying on their own,” he said.
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