On the issue of jobs, the EDD indicated that by the end of year 2012, there were increases especially in the net new jobs. This was according to Statistics South Africa (StatsSA). On targets, the EDD was focusing on African trade within the context of the NGP and thousands of jobs were being created out of just trade within Africa. It was also indicated that global growth had continued to be a major driver to the economic development targets in South Africa and that jobs could be created in the short term by improving trade with new markets. However, long term job creation had to be done via sustainable and long term infrastructure growth. The EDD further indicated that there was significant increase in the net job growth and that unfortunately this was not usually noticed by the public at large. The Committee was told that it was important to note that there were short and long term jobs so a job for only a period of two (2) weeks could not be considered as a job because it was very temporary. The EDD emphasised that there was a need to ensure that targets and indicators were well understood and reported within the appropriate context.