Jobs For Our People

The document describes the Gauteng Economic Development Plan and its context, highlighting unemployment challenges in Gauteng and the province’s efforts to create jobs and drive economic transformation. It references statistics on unemployment, youth unemployment, and job creation milestones between 2010 and 2016, and frames these within the province’s mandate to pursue radical transformation, modernisation and re-industrialisation. It situates these efforts within the Gauteng provincial government’s actions since 2014 and points to the plan as the strategic response to these economic conditions.