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RBIDZ Hosts

National Council of Provinces

NCOP Visits RBIDZ Under the Theme, “Advancing Our Collective

Efforts to Creating Work Opportunities for Our People”

In centralising the plan to target
various shortcomings and social

ills adopted from the past history, a
National Development Plan was put in
place as a tool to focus on the primary
challenges facing the country.”

Since the attainment of democracy in 1994, the government large numbers of job seekers who are not legible to enter the labour
has undertaken a major task to provide equal opportunities, fight market because of the poor skills or no skills at all.
unemployment and eradicate poverty in the country. Collectively, the
government has executed various policies, plans and programmes In centralising the plan to target various shortcomings and social ills
that would focus on poverty alleviation, with an objective to improve adopted from the past history, a National Development Plan was put in
the lives of the people. place as a tool to focus on the primary challenges facing the country.
The main objective of the NDP is to eliminate poverty, reduce inequality,
Statistics show that a majority of people still live below the poverty and create jobs estimated to 11 million by year 2030, however, this is
margin. The entire scope of lifestyle still presents characteristics of a farfetched if the political emancipation is not translated into economic
low growth, middle income trap, characterised by lack of competition, well-being for all.

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