SONA 2023: What AL JAMA-AH expects from Ramaphosa

AL JAMA-AH says it is expecting His Excellency Cyril Ramaphosa to give top priority to the Economic Reconstruction and Recovery Plan’s localization of 1000 products to be identified for manufacturing in townships, villages and on the Cape Flats during his State of the Nation Address (SONA).

AL JAMA-AH WANT YOUTH TO BE A PRIORITY

Spokesperson for the party, Nisa Siers says AL JAMA-AH Constituency is anxious to know which products have been identified to localise.

“The peanut butter project in Groutville in the Eastern Cape is one of the projects which has been localised. One of the key elements of the Economic Reconstruction and Recovery Plan is localization and it is expected from SMMEs and co-operatives to play a central role in driving localization.”

Siers

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WHAT THE MUSLIM PARTY BELIEVES SONA SHOULD FOCUS ON

• The President should ban imported peanut butter and further encourage the call for ‘Buy’Local – Local is Lekker’ and for the “Proudly South African’ label, so this localized product, should be given an opportunity to be sold on local, provincial, national and international markets.
• Land ownership remains a contentious issue for the dispossessed and previously oppressed communities. The President should give an undertaking that there will be universal free land ownership and that every South African from the age of 25 must be allocated a piece of land with a title deed.

“AL JAMA-AH is looking forward to the announcement that every matriculant, who is not pursuing further studies, should access job opportunities, and that they are trained to fill vacant positions throughout South Africa. Youth unemployment is a crisis; of our country’s 40 million working age-people, 51.6% are youths. The statistics revealed that 46% of them are unemployed and without education and training,” she detailed.

She added, “Our youth should be geared towards obtaining moral and ethical training to prepare themselves to play a greater role in the country. In tandem with the private sector, we should do our utmost – as government – to alleviate the situation our youth nay, we should strive to secure jobs for our youth who is in the position to change the country’s flagging economic position around”.

Ramaphosa is expected to address the nation at 7pm.

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