With the purported sudden emphasis on job creation, our department of employment and labour has regurgitated a budget that is not only pedestrian but reflects “business as usual”. 

It’s almost as if President Cyril Ramaphosa is mouthing the right words in his support of job creation but is keeping his fingers crossed simultaneously knowing full well that his shining new minister of employment and labour is in fact going to do nothing that might rock the boat. ..

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