South Africa’s Recovery From the Effect of COVID-19 Pandemic Launched

South Africa’s Recovery From the Effect of COVID-19 Pandemic Launched

South Africa’s recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic’s devastating economic and social effects is on course, with the government focusing on implementing the economic rebuilding and recovery strategy.

This was disclosed by President Cyril Ramaphosa when he was responding to Parliament on Thursday on the Presidency’s Budget Vote.

He made this statement:

“Our economic recovery is gathering pace. The health recovery from the pandemic is proceeding. We are steadily rebuilding the capacity of the state.”

“The recovery that was promised is slowly coming to pass. Factories are back in full production and new ones are being opened. Small businesses and local economies are being revitalized, and jobs are being created. Domestic and international investment is picking up. Public-private partnerships are being forged to close developmental lags and to grow the economy.”

“As the Minister of Justice and Correctional Services told this House [on Thursday], our law enforcement agencies are clawing back on malfeasance and corruption and are doing so without fear, favour, or prejudice,” he added.

Although South Africa faces problems, the President in the statements below stated that the country’s tenacity remains unchanged.

“Despite our many challenges, we are some way off from the South Africa we were a year, two or even three years ago. When COVID-19 struck in early 2020, there were many who believed we would collapse under the heavy weight of this burden.”

“And yet we pulled through, having been able to mitigate the health impact and provide social support to the most vulnerable,” he said.

President Ramaphosa urged members of Parliament and the general public to work together to push the government’s economic reconstruction and recovery agenda forward.

He said, “So today we again must prove the naysayers wrong as we confront the economic and social challenges of the day. We can only do so if we work together and not against each other”.