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Modernise economy, says premier, LOWVELDER/LAEVELDER (Friday)

Modernise economy, says premier, LOWVELDER/LAEVELDER (Friday)

MBOMBELA – The EFF wants more protection for infant industries. Mr Collen Sedibe, the party's provincial leader questioned the premier in the legislature last week about how industry could drive development if start-ups were not protected. Mr David Mabuza explained that the urgent need to modernise and industrialise the province's economy lay at the heart of the government's radical socio-economic agenda. “Socio-economic challenges remain, despite the strides made to liberate them economically,” Mabuza said. “We are convinced that the failure to transform or change the structure of the provincial economy to reflect the country's racial and gender demographics in both the ownership and participation pattern, is the core reason for poverty, inequality and unemployment continuing unabated.”


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