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 Job creation? 'Yes we can!'
    Keith Ross
    June 05 2009 at 11:17AM
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President Jacob Zuma's ambitious aim to create 500 000 jobs by the end of this year is within reach, says the Minister in the Presidency, Collins Chabane.

Chabane said the goal of creating these jobs had to be seen in the context of the planned "extended public works programme".

"The extended public works programme is a cross-cutting one," he said.

"It includes the social sector, it includes the economic sector, it includes the infrastructure sector. It is possible to create that number of jobs."

'It is a government-wide intervention programme'
Chabane said the programme also included the social sector and care givers who would be employed in the primary health system.
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It included many jobs in the public works programme, but did not involve only construction. "It goes wider," he said. "It is a government-wide intervention programme."

Chabane spoke of the job- creation programme when interviewed on SAfm Radio's After Eight Debate about Zuma's State of the Nation address and the goals of the governing party.

He also spoke of his own personal concerns about the serious shortage of skills in South Africa. "In the first place, for any government or any country, its biggest asset is its human resources."

South Africa, he said, had to break the back of illiteracy and the lack of skills or it would not be able to supply the needs of its sophisticated economy.

"That is for me the central point we will have to attend to."

To meet the needs of a growing economy, South Africa had to fix its education system and ensure a dedicated focus on skills creation, particularly on the technical side.

"We don't have sufficient artisans, sufficient engineers and so on," he said.

Chabane said his own portfolio of performance monitoring and evaluation would cover a wide area. It would cover not only state departments, but also institutions that received funds from the government.


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