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Cyril Ramaphosa 🇿🇦 @CyrilRamaphosa
The data also suggests that while the expansion of social grants provided substantial relief to individuals and households last year, hunger has again risen to higher levels than before. This is deeply worrying. — PolitiTweet.org
Cyril Ramaphosa 🇿🇦 @CyrilRamaphosa
The same survey found a high degree of turnover in the labour market, which means that those who lost their jobs in April are not necessarily those who gained jobs in October. Women are working fewer hours, and their employment levels have not recovered as robustly as men. — PolitiTweet.org
Cyril Ramaphosa 🇿🇦 @CyrilRamaphosa
It is these green shoots that we must continue to nurture as we steer the economy towards a full recovery and further growth. However, there are several areas of concern. — PolitiTweet.org
Cyril Ramaphosa 🇿🇦 @CyrilRamaphosa
This recovery in employment is the result of both the phased reopening of the economy as we brought the virus under control, as well as the success of relief measures such as UIF TERS that were implemented as part of our emergency stimulus package. — PolitiTweet.org
Cyril Ramaphosa 🇿🇦 @CyrilRamaphosa
While we await the release of new data from Stats SA, these findings are a remarkable early signal of a robust and resilient labour market recovery. — PolitiTweet.org
Cyril Ramaphosa 🇿🇦 @CyrilRamaphosa
This data shows that by October last year, total employment had recovered to almost reach the level seen in February, just before the pandemic. — PolitiTweet.org
Cyril Ramaphosa 🇿🇦 @CyrilRamaphosa
A collaboration among several South African universities, this is a nationally representative study which has been tracking the impact on households since early in the pandemic. — PolitiTweet.org
Cyril Ramaphosa 🇿🇦 @CyrilRamaphosa
The economy is already showing signs of a strong recovery. Just yesterday, we received new results from the third wave of the NIDS-CRAM survey. — PolitiTweet.org
Cyril Ramaphosa 🇿🇦 @CyrilRamaphosa
It is also why the COVID-19 social relief measures we implemented are so important. The temporary increases in payments to social grant recipients and the special COVID-19 grant provided significant support to poor households at a critical time. — PolitiTweet.org
Cyril Ramaphosa 🇿🇦 @CyrilRamaphosa
It is why, for example, one of the programmes under the Presidential Employment Stimulus is to provide financial support to over 100,000 ECD practitioners to enable them to re-open or keep open their early childhood facilities. — PolitiTweet.org
Cyril Ramaphosa 🇿🇦 @CyrilRamaphosa
This is why we are still focusing on the provision of antiretroviral therapy, and working towards the elimination of mother to child transmission of HIV. — PolitiTweet.org
Cyril Ramaphosa 🇿🇦 @CyrilRamaphosa
The foundation for all these efforts is laid in the early years of life. This is why maternal health, child nutrition and early childhood development are vital to the transformational programme of this government. — PolitiTweet.org
Cyril Ramaphosa 🇿🇦 @CyrilRamaphosa
The Youth Employment Service that we launched in 2018 has created over 50,000 year-long work experiences & generated over R2.8 billion in new salaries for young people. The Employment Tax Incentive supported over 1.5 million jobs for young people in the 2019/2020 financial year. — PolitiTweet.org
Cyril Ramaphosa 🇿🇦 @CyrilRamaphosa
We are expanding the funding available for digital and technology skills and in global business services through an innovative model that links payment for skills training to employment outcomes. — PolitiTweet.org
Cyril Ramaphosa 🇿🇦 @CyrilRamaphosa
We are mapping the services available to young people in every community to identify gaps and target our interventions to the areas of greatest need. — PolitiTweet.org
Cyril Ramaphosa 🇿🇦 @CyrilRamaphosa
We need to harness their energy, skills and dynamism to meet the challenges of the present and the future. That is why we are providing young people with pathways from learning to earning. — PolitiTweet.org
Cyril Ramaphosa 🇿🇦 @CyrilRamaphosa
As a country we have identified youth employment as one of our foremost priorities not only because the high rate of unemployment is unacceptable, but also because we need young people to grow our economy. — PolitiTweet.org
Cyril Ramaphosa 🇿🇦 @CyrilRamaphosa
This is a most remarkable group of learners, who were determined to learn and to study under the most difficult conditions. They must be commended for their perseverance and for their steadfast commitment to achieving their ambitions. — PolitiTweet.org
Cyril Ramaphosa 🇿🇦 @CyrilRamaphosa
Too many young people are disillusioned, frustrated and unsure of where to go for support. But our youth are also resilient. In just under a week’s time, the matric results for 2020 will be released. — PolitiTweet.org
Cyril Ramaphosa 🇿🇦 @CyrilRamaphosa
The success of our economy starts with the investment we make in our people, and specifically our youth. South Africa is a young nation, with a youthful population. However, too many young people struggle to gain a foothold in the labour market. — PolitiTweet.org
Cyril Ramaphosa 🇿🇦 @CyrilRamaphosa
We now live in an era where we pandemics may become more frequent and we must therefore be self-reliant in relation to diagnostics, therapeutics and vaccines. We must develop the scientific capabilities that our country has demonstrated to prepare for the future. — PolitiTweet.org
Cyril Ramaphosa 🇿🇦 @CyrilRamaphosa
I have asked the Minister of Higher Education and Innovation to put together a team of scientists to begin the process of developing our own vaccines to deal with this and future pandemics. — PolitiTweet.org
Cyril Ramaphosa 🇿🇦 @CyrilRamaphosa
Taken together, our national science and innovation system is a hugely valuable resource that we need to further nurture and develop. We must support commercialisation of its products for domestic use and export, creating factories and manufacturing jobs. — PolitiTweet.org
Cyril Ramaphosa 🇿🇦 @CyrilRamaphosa
These capabilities did not come about by chance. They have been developed over many years, mostly funded with public resources, working together with development partners locally and internationally. — PolitiTweet.org
Cyril Ramaphosa 🇿🇦 @CyrilRamaphosa
Biovac, a partnership between government and the private sector, is using its vaccine storage and distribution infrastructure and capabilities to assist with the distribution of the COVID-19 vaccine to different vaccination centres. — PolitiTweet.org
Cyril Ramaphosa 🇿🇦 @CyrilRamaphosa
Several South African scientists and researchers at a number of world-class institutions have been involved in the management of vaccine trials in the country. — PolitiTweet.org
Cyril Ramaphosa 🇿🇦 @CyrilRamaphosa
Scientists from the University of KwaZulu-Natal, working with other laboratories, were at the forefront of the genomic surveillance work that has led to the identification of new COVID-19 variants. — PolitiTweet.org
Cyril Ramaphosa 🇿🇦 @CyrilRamaphosa
As mentioned in this debate, South African scientists, engineers and manufacturers were able to design and produce personal protective equipment and thousands of medical ventilators within a matter of months to respond to a desperate need. — PolitiTweet.org
Cyril Ramaphosa 🇿🇦 @CyrilRamaphosa
This pandemic hasn’t only revealed so much about our character as a people, but it has revealed the depth & diversity of expertise in our country. It has demonstrated the world-leading capabilities of our scientists, research institutions, universities, agencies & public entities — PolitiTweet.org
Cyril Ramaphosa 🇿🇦 @CyrilRamaphosa
It is due to their actions that this pandemic has not taken an even greater toll, that we are now able to work towards a recovery and that we are able to contemplate a time when we will have overcome the disease. — PolitiTweet.org
