The Democratic Alliance has welcomed the
improved GDP annualised growth rate of 3.0% for the second quarter of 2013.
The
DA said this is a marked improvement on the depressed 0.9% annualised GDP
growth the economy achieved in the first quarter of the year.
The country’s economic growth is forecast
to grow at 2.2% this year.
DA MP of Finance Tim Harris said that they
do note that the primary sector which is agriculture, mining the places where
most jobs are created actually shrunk by 5% in the quarter.
“So clearly while we are getting some
economic growth it’s too slow to create jobs and we are not getting growth in
the areas where jobs will most mostly be created for South Africans,” added
Harris.
Harris also said that as the DA they think
there needs to be a re-doubled effort on the parts of government to implement
policies that will actually see growth in jobs in South Africa
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