By Natasha Marrian –
THE government has released its priorities for the next five years — the first of three phases of bringing policy in line with the National Development Plan — which includes reducing unemployment to 14%.
The Medium Term Strategic Framework (MTSF) for 2014-19, which sets out government’s priorities over the next five years, was released by Minister in the Presidency Jeff Radebe on Thursday.
While the MTSF represents the government’s wish list for the coming term, its target of reducing unemployment to 14% in the next five years is ambitious after the latest statistics showed that levels of joblessness had hit a six-year-low in the second quarter of this year.
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