Hon Minister, when you announced and launched the New Growth Path, NGP, at the end of 2010, you promised the delivery of about 5 million jobs by 2020. To date, the figures in the announcements that you have made have amounted to only 330 000 jobs.
More than 18 months have passed since the announcement of the NGP. You should by now have created at least 750 000 jobs through the interventions made by the Department of Economic Development. So this means that the current figure presented by you recently falls some 420 000 jobs short of the original target. Unemployment has become significantly worse since then, and the growth rates have also declined.
Is it not true, Minister, that the New Growth Path is making little or no contribution to growing our economy and reducing unemployment? Do you still believe that the NGP can deliver on its promise of creating more than 4,5 million jobs by about 8 years from now?