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Health • Rural Development • EmploymentEDUCATION • Safety & Security March • Education 2017 Edition 1 1 JOBSJOBS Vuk’uzenzele INSIDE:INSIDE: Produced by Government Communications (GCIS) | March 2017 Edition 1 New minimum wage will help the poor Page 2 Changing lives, protecting communities Government increases efforts to build an enabling environment for job creation. Page 15 Employment is top priority ALSO AVAILABLE ON: DESPITE SLOW economic growth government has plans to improve the lives of South Africans. Chris Bathembu and Ongezwa Mogotsi He outlined a number of beneficiation, and encourag- six million work opportunities @VukuzenzeleNews proposals aimed at boosting ing private sector investment. by the end of March 2019. Of Vuk'uzenzele resident Jacob Zuma employment including: President Zuma said govern- the work opportunities cre- Websites: www.gcis.gov.za delivered his State The establishment of an In- ment had also identified tour- ated, more than one million www.vukuzenzele.gov.za of the National Ad- vest SA One-Stop Shop. ism as a key job driver. have been taken up by the P E-mail: [email protected] dress (SoNA) at a time when Taking advantage of tour- “We are thus pleased that our youth.” Tel: (+27) 12 473 0089 the economy is not grow- ism as a job driver. tourist arrival numbers for the President Zuma noted that ing fast enough to create Scaling up the Expanded period January to November during 2015/2016, more than Free Copy much-needed jobs. Despite Public Works Programme 2016 increased to nine mil- 61 000 work opportunities this, the President delivered (EPWP). lion, an increase of just over were created through Envi- promotion of science as a ca- a speech that gave a positive Using public infrastructure one million arrivals from 2015. ronmental Programmes such reer of choice. outlook on the country’s fu- as a way to create work op- This represents a 13 percent as Working for Water, Work- On road infrastructure, ture. portunities. growth in tourist arrivals,” ing for Wetlands, Working on the South African National Government will use the he said. Fire and Working for Ecosys- Roads Agency (Sanral) has DID YOU KNOW? Nine-Point Plan announced in In addition, government tems. More than 60 percent of started the planning phase Government spends R500 the 2015 SoNA to help speed runs effective poverty allevi- the beneficiaries were young of the R4.5 billion Moloto road billion a year buying goods up growth and employment. ation programmes such as the people. upgrade. and services. Added to The key pillars of the plan in- EPWP. This has led to job creation In 2014, government this, government also has a clude, among other things, re- “The EPWP has, since 2014, in the Northern Cape and di- launched the Operation R900 billion infrastructure solving the energy challenge, created more than two million versification of the economy Phakisa Big Fast results meth- budget. Source: SouthAfrica.info promoting agriculture and work opportunities towards through the creation of artisan agro-processing, advancing the attainment of the target of and maintenance jobs, and the > Cont. page 2 2 March 2017 Edition 1 GENERAL Vuk’uzenzele New minimum wage will help the poor More THAN 6 MILLion workers stand to benefit from the new national minimum wage. eputy President Cyril “The agreements surviving on a living wage of Ramaphosa has an- restore the dignity under R3 500 and that there is Dnounced that the na- a need to begin a journey of tional minimum wage has of all poor South improving the income of low- been set at R20 per hour or Africans.” paid workers. R3 500 a month for those who “What we arrived at in terms work a 40-hour week. of the national minimum wage Those who work a 45-hour tive bargaining, as well as the is not a living wage. This forms week will have their minimum modalities to introduce the a firm foundation of moving wage set at R3 900. national minimum wage. our country towards a living The Deputy President said the The agreements represent wage. It is a start. These agree- new minimum wage will come a significant advance “in our ments are a result of nearly into effecton 1 May 2018. efforts as a nation and as peo- two years of deliberations. “The national minimum ple to address the challenges of “They are a response by the wage, which is a floor below wage inequality in our country call that was made by Presi- which no worker will be paid, as well as stabilising the labour dent Zuma”. will significantly improve the market”. He said companies that Millions of low-paid workers will benefit from the new minimum wage. lives of millions of low-paid He said the agreements also cannot afford the national workers and begin to address a national minimum wage as society organisations at the power up the momentum to minimum wage can apply for the challenge of wage inequal- an instrument of economic as National Economic Devel- tackle inequality and poverty. exemption from government. ity in our country. well as social development,” opment and Labour Council The agreements restore the The Deputy President also “At its introduction next he said. (Nedlac) signed agreements dignity of all poor South Af- said the minimum wage year, South Africa will join The Deputy President said on measures to strengthen ricans. would be evaluated from time several countries around the social partners representing labour stability as well as to The Deputy President said to time to assess its impact on world that have implemented organised labour and civic deepen the process of collec- 6.6 million workers were jobs. v > From page 1 Land for all odology in the ocean economy, health, ed- ucation and mining sectors. The purpose was to find a few key projects to unlock Bathandwa Mbola a 19 percent decline in growth in implementing the National De- households involved in velopment Plan. uring the State of agriculture from 2.9 mil- the Nation Ad- lion in 2011 to 2.3 million Radical economic Ddress (SoNA), households in 2016.” transformation President Jacob Zuma Since 1994, government Meanwhile President Jacob Zuma said announced that the state has transferred millions radical economic transformation will be will increase its power of hectares of land back to at the centre of government's priorities for to use the Expropriation blacks who were removed 2017. Act to pursue land reform from their ancestral land, FAST FACT rently settled through “Today we are beginning a new chapter and land redistribution, but some people feel that financial compensation The year 2017 has been of radical transformation. The state will in line with the Consti- the pace of redistribution which does not help the declared the Year of play a role in the economy to drive that tution. has not been fast enough. process at all. Oliver Reginald Tambo transformation," the President said. “It will be difficult, if President Zuma said "It perpetuates dispos- who would have turned He said the time had come for the state to not impossible, to achieve that going forward gov- session. It also under- 100 years this year. move a step further to ensure an overhaul true reconciliation until ernment will continue mines economic empow- of the economic structure of the country the land question is re- to implement other pro- Source: SouthAfrica.info erment,” he said. for the benefit of all citizens. solved. grammes such as the The President called on “The gap between the annual average “Only eight million hec- Strengthening of Rela- tablish a new company as South Africans to unite household incomes of African-headed tares of arable land have tives Rights programme, being joint owners. to move the country for- households and their white counterparts been transferred to black also known as the 50-50 President Zuma re- ward. remains shockingly huge. White people, which is only 9.8 programme. newed the call for land “It is the year of unity households earn at least five times more percent of the 82 million In this programme, farm claimants to accept land in action by all South Af- than black households, according to hectares of arable land in workers join together as a instead of financial com- ricans as we move South Statistics SA,” President Zuma said. v South Africa. legal entity and together pensation. Over 90 per- Africa forward together,” “There has also been with the farm owner es- cent of claims are cur- the President said. v Head of Editorial and Production Writers Translators Tasneem Carrim | [email protected] Albert Pule Nomgqibelo Motha Boitumelo Phalatse Noluthando Mkhize Phakamani Dadlana Managing Editor Dorris Simpson | [email protected] Editorial Assistant | Sekgabo Kedijang Vuk’uzenzele All rights reserved. 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Tel: (+27) 12 473 0089 E-mail: [email protected] Address: Private Bag X745, Pretoria, 0001 Sub-Editor | Irene Naidoo Printed by: Distributed by: Vuk’uzenzele From THEDUCATIONE Union BUILdings March 2017 Edition 1 3 From THE Union BUILdings a message from the President South Africa is for all of us n 21 March, our nation the manufacturing sector. will again observe The Department of Small OHuman Rights Day – Business Development will a day on which we normally work with state owned com- focus on the many rights en- panies and enterprises as well shrined in our Constitution; as government departments, to rights that did not exist when ensure that 30 percent of their the apartheid regime perpe- contracts or tenders are subcon- trated the Sharpeville Massa- tracted to small businesses.