Western Cape finance MEC Alan Winde wants residents of the Southern Cape to cash in on the coming construction boom following the devastating fires that destroyed dozens of homes. Winde said a total of 2,500 jobs have been lost due to the fires‚ which also hit the accommodation industry hard. Winde said the province’s Red Tape Reduction Unit‚ which falls under his department‚ should work with the municipality to ensure building plans were fast-tracked. He said the government needed to ensure workers who lost their jobs were retrained to be able to meet demand. "Obviously there is going to be a bit of a building boom. You’ve got your ordinary economic growth but you need to add onto that another 500 to 600 homes‚ from small‚ informal to some of those massive‚ big ones in Plett‚ that burnt down‚" said Winde. "That region is going to have a lot of building happening‚ then there are jobs that come with it and business that can actually provide help‚ from plumbing to building to carpentr...
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