The president said once infrastructure reforms to state-owned enterprises (SOEs) are 'properly bedded down', the country will see an 'uptick in the creation of jobs'.
JOHANNESBURG - President Cyril Ramaphosa said the repairing of state-owned enterprises is crucial to decreasing the unemployment rate in the country.
On Friday, the Passenger Rail Agency of South Africa announced it hired 286 previously unemployed youth as peace officers, who would guard its infrastructure. "Once those reforms are properly bedded down as they are now being addressed, we are going to see an uptick in the creation of jobs, but government is not waiting for that. We are in the process of giving hope to our people."
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