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Parliament Select Committee calls for National Crisis Summit to curb job losses

# Parliament’s Select Committee on Economic Development and Trade chairperson, Sonja Boshoff has called for a National Crisis Summit to tackle South Africa’s growing wave of job losses. Boshoff says the summit should unite government, business, and labour to find urgent solutions, including relief on electricity and freight costs, stronger localisation, and trade remedies. She warns that mass retrenchments, especially in the Eastern Cape, Gauteng and Free State, threaten livelihoods and the country’s industrial future.