ALAN WINDE: Cape uses innovation to tackle two crises, and small wins are already evident
It is government’s role to create the fertile environment in which the private sector thrives and job creation can grow
Throughout the Western Cape’s response to Covid-19, I have referred to two pandemics. On the one hand we face the Covid-19 health pandemic, on the other we have an employment crisis — millions of South Africans have lost their jobs over the past year. Both require us as a government to act urgently and innovatively and to lead from the front.
We have had to walk a fine line to balance these two pandemics — ensuring we are able to offer appropriate healthcare to those who need it, while also addressing the humanitarian crisis that has stemmed from thousands of people losing their jobs, and with it their ability to put food on the table for themselves and their families...
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