Mashatile says a fair transition to a sustainable economy must include everyone [SOUND]

# Deputy president Paul Mashatile says the most urgent national task is to achieve stronger growth and create jobs on a scale that substantially reduces poverty and inequality. He delivered the keynote address at the Federation of Unions of South Africa’s Eighth National Congress in Kempton Park, Gauteng yesterday. The economy contracted by 0.2 percent in the second quarter of this year, while the official unemployment stands at 33.6-percent. Mashatile stated that employment preservation must become a more deliberate part of the industrial policy: