He says he does not believe that the budget that will be tabled by Godongwana this week, will provide a solution to SA’s unemployment rate.
This, as the Godongwana is set to table budget 3.0 which will not include a VAT hike.

The EFF marched to national Treasury to celebrating the halting of the 0.5% point VAT increase.

"On Wednesday, we’re going to listen to another lie, there will not be a plan to create jobs. There will not be a plan to grow the economy.

There won’t be money to give to Transnet, there won’t be money to give to state-owned enterprises. They want to privatise them so we can be unemployed."

SA’s unemployment rate surges to 32.9%. According to Stats SA, 291 000 people lost jobs in the first quarter of this year, deepening the crisis.

The labour force contracted despite a growing working-age population, leaving 25.1 million South Africans competing for limited jobs.

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