Hon Chairperson, I expected a better response from the Minister and I was wanting to say that it was worth waiting all this time for his response!
The main body of my question was about actual job creation, after the diagnostic review of the National Planning Commission. I endorse the fact that the aspirational objective of the government to create decent work is something that will first start with the creation of jobs, which will then become decent.
The National Planning Commission has identified education and employment as the most pressing national challenges facing this country. In the light of the current debate with regard to South Africa's high levels of unemployment and a backlog in achieving the job creation targets, do you, Minister, support Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan's admission that South Africa's restrictive labour laws need to be relaxed in order for the rate of job creation to be accelerated?