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Cosatu says the 0.5% GDP growth is nowhere near enough [SOUND]

# Union federation Cosatu says the South African economy growing by 0.5-percent in the first quarter of this year, between January and March, is still far from enough. Finance, agriculture, trade and transport were the largest drivers of this growth on the production side of the economy. Cosatu’s Matthew Parks says the economy needs to be growing faster than it is now to generate a continuous and meaningful fall in the country’s stubbornly high unemployment rate:

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