Economy is SA's ‘apex priority’‚ says Zuma

With the global economic climate being far from favourable‚ South Africa has made the economy an apex priority in this current period‚ says President Jacob Zuma.

Speaking at the 2nd Annual Ubuntu Awards ceremony in Cape Town on Saturday night‚ Zuma said that the government had been meeting with the business community “so that we can move together as we put in place measures that will ignite growth and help us to create jobs”.

“We will be meeting with labour and other sectors as well‚ as we respond to the persistent low growth‚ low commodity prices and other challenges facing developing economies.

“We shall work together to build a resilient economy which will enable us to address challenges of unemployment‚ poverty and inequality‚” the president stated .

“We value cooperation with all regions of the world‚ as we take forward our vision of building a united‚ non-racial‚ non-sexist‚ democratic and prosperous South Africa‚” he added.