JOHANNESBURG - Economic growth equals job opportunities.
While this is true, Kate Phillip from the Presidential Employment Stimulus office,
argues that economic growth alone is not enough.
"The presidential employment stimulus started in the context of covid where the pandemic cause the economy to lose a high number of jobs... The pandemic is over, but our crisis of unemployment is not"
This comes as Centre for Development and Enterprise suggests, that an average growth rate of 4 percent could generate approximately 400-thousand new jobs annually.
Philip, reflecting on the Wonderboom Airshow and Aviation Career Expo 2025, notes how it is an indication that there is no shortage of work to be done to make South Africa a better place. This is despite the high levels of unemployment.