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Gauteng Premier to deliver SOPA on Monday

Gauteng Premier David Makhura
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The Gauteng government plans to grow the economy, create jobs as well as fight crime and corruption in 2018.

Premier David Makhura is expected to announce how these issues will be addressed, when he delivers his State of the Province address in the provincial legislature on Monday morning.

Makhura is also expected to outline measures to rescue the ailing Health Department, after he admitted that the Life Esidimeni tragedy had exposed deep problems in the province’s public health system.

Gauteng government spokesperson Thabo Masebe says youth unemployment remains one of the provincial government’s greatest challenges.

“We will continue with our efforts, working together with key role players in business, in labour, to ensure that we create many employment opportunities. Through some of the things that we are doing, like Tshepo 1 million, we are actually targeting young people, creating opportunities for them, identifying areas where they can be placed in jobs and areas for skills training and entrepreneurship development.”

 

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