Our strategies as the government are multipronged, multipronged in a sense that, we want to assist young people to create their own businesses first and be supported. In any economy in the world, that economy can not be durable, sustainable if it is not supported by small businesses that are supported by government, are supported by big businesses.
For any retail big company, there are a lot of small, medium enterprises that do work in that very same value chain. So it is important that we create people that will create jobs, not only people that will seek jobs but in the process, we are going the small, medium enterprises as I have said.
In Dr J S Moroka we want to see a brick maker, a company that will make bricks because the government is doing a lot of government
projects. We are building a school, a clinic, RDP houses but all the material that we used to build this infrastructure we source it outside Dr J S Moroka instead of sourcing it inside Dr J S Moroka.
That means the money that the government is spending in building a school, at the end of the day that money goes out of Dr J S Moroka. So we want to support local businesses. The government must open up in terms of their own procurement system.
They must be able to procure goods and services from local people. Those goods are going to be tested. The quality of those goods must be tested so that we do not undermine the quality of the bricks, the frames that we use but our people can be supported to produce quality goods.
So, that should be the attitude of government as we go but in the main, we must encourage people to start their own businesses so that they can employ other people, with the support of the government. The Industrial Development Corporation, IDC, has supported more or less - a big number - 120 companies, spending over R5 billion, young, small, medium enterprises that were supported in different sectors of our economy that is the right way to proceed. Thank you very much. [Applause.]