North West Provincial Government to hosts an engagement session with industry leaders to reconstruct and revive the economy of the province post Covid-19
The Covid-19 pandemic caused a massive and rapid shock on the economy of the North West Province. The impact has led to closures of companies which resulted in big job losses and high levels of social hardships.
The North West Provincial Government will therefore be hosting an engagement session with the industry leaders to assess the impact of Covid-19 on the economy of the province and come up with integrated interventions and plans to reconstruct and revive the economy of the Province across the key sectors of the economy, on Monday the 30th of November 2020, at Sun City, Pilanesberg.
The engagement session will respond to this dire situation and ensure a coordinated collaboration between government, the private sector and other social partners to come up with short and long term interventions to this problem.
"In responding to this situation as the Provincial government we felt that it will be of utmost importance for a coordinated collaboration between all stakeholders including the social partners to identify priority areas to rebuild the economy as well as structural reforms which will enable sustainable and inclusive growth focusing on job creation.
Our intention is to develop a detailed implementation that will allow both government and private sector to allocate resources to re-engineer the creation of sustainable jobs and fast track the economic recovery" said Premier Job Mokgoro.
Mokgoro reiterated the fact that it is government's responsibility to create an enabling environment in terms of physical and institutional factors to attract and retain investment in the North West province which will result in the reduction of unemployment especially to young people as future leaders of the country.
Amongst the presentations will be the report by the North West University highlighting the economic status of the province post Covid-19 and what strategies can be put in place to rebuild the economy.
The engagement is to be led by the Premier Mokgoro, his Executive Council as well as national and local government leaders. Also in attendance will be leaders of the key industries of the provincial economy, representatives of higher learning institutions, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) and small businesses across all the sectors.
Members of the media are invited to attend this august event.
Media houses are requested to send confirmations:
Keorapetse Mosipidi
E-mail: kmosipidi@nwpg.gov.za
SMS to 078 152 1096 before Thursday the 26th November 2020.
Enquiries:
Bonolo Mohlakoana
Cell: 082 901 2435
E-mail:BMohloakoan@nwpg.gov.za
Dumisa Seshabela
Cell: 079 522 7375
E-mail: dseshabela@nwpg.gov.za or seshabeladumisa@gmail.com
