# Union GIWUSA is calling on Finance minister Enoch Godongwana to announce an emergency, state-led jobs plan to address unemployment in today’s Medium-Term Budget Policy Statement. The country’s official unemployment rate rose to 33.6-percent in the second quarter of this year. GIWUSA president Mametlwe Sebei says the plan should include mass public employment programmes, direct state investment in productive sectors, support for cooperatives and worker-controlled enterprises:
GIWUSA calls for an emergency state-led jobs plan in the Medium-Term Budget [SOUND]
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