Zuma: Business leaders to work with state to solve crisis
10 February 2016
Cape Town – Business Unity SA and the National Treasury will create a task team to focus on economic growth and job creation, President Jacob Zuma announced on Tuesday.
This followed Zuma’s meeting with over 140 business leaders and cabinet minister in Cape Town, where they looked at ways of growing the economy and averting a credit rating downgrade to junk status.
“We are going to have a small group that is going to sit and work out the things we agreed on … that we can do concretely to ensure that we grow the economy and deal with the issue of unemployment,” Zuma announced after the meeting, according to the SA Government News Agency.
Business Unity SA president Jabu Mabuza and Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan will create the group, he said.