Program Director,
Convener and Coordinator of the ANC Youth League: Distinguished Members of youth business community Young Intellectuals in our midst
Distinguished Guests
Ladies and Gentleman

This fundraising business breakfast takes place at a time when the country is grappling with devastating effects of intermittent electricity supply which is negatively affecting businesses, and leading others to close thus contributing to rampant joblessness amongst the youth. This unfortunate economic precipice happens at a time when the economy is gradually recovering from Covid-19. The primary preoccupation by all social partners around a just and inclusive economic recovery also provides the youth, young businesspeople, public policy-makers and academics provide an opportunity to re-ignite the discourse on the effective implementation of the targeted industrial policy interventions. that are premised on evidence-based research that inputs on economic growth, productivity and employment thus leading to the economic regeneration of South Africa.

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