Ramaphosa urges BBC to have the 'courage to employ disabled people'
Addressing top executives at the Black Business Council's gala dinner at the Gallagher Estate Convention Centre in Midrand, Johannesburg on Friday night, Ramaphosa highlighted that he had been inundated with requests by various individuals who remain unemployed.
He added: "We can ask ourselves how many businesses in here have had the courage to employ disabled people. We would find that very few have. That is what disabled people have been telling us. Ramaphosa said as the BBC, under the leadership of CEO Sandile Zungu, seeks to promote inclusive growth, rebuild itself into a reputable institution and become a force to be reckoned with, its greatest preoccupation had to be the creation of jobs for the nine million South Africans who are unemployed so as to ensure radical economic transformation.
Ramaphosa also encouraged black-owned businesses to tap into the industrialisation sector saying with the signing of the Africa Union's Continental Free Trade Area last year, black industrialists were now needed more than ever.
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