Deputy Speaker, we welcome the New Growth Path announced by the Cabinet this week whose principal aim is to boost job creation, and we hope that our journalists tried to understand what was being said and did less speculation.
The proposal constitutes an important milestone in economic policy-making in a country which still has powerful interest groups such as business and labour, which are powerful components of the mass movement of the historically dispossessed. The New Growth Path is an attempt to find common ground, so that the country's economy can advance more rapidly. It recognises the necessity of a strong leading role by the state with an equally important role by business.
A central idea is that we need to mobilise the whole country to transform what remains of the apartheid legacy, and I hope the House supports that idea. [Applause.]