The Engagements With The International Investment Council

We Identified Various Sectors Of The Economy, Which We Said Were Growth Sectors. I Have Mentioned Tourism. We Said, For Instance, Agro-business. We Grow A Lot Of Food And Fruit And Things Like That. It Must Be Possible To Process Those.

The Auditor-general Has Been Complaining Year In And Year Out That The Municipalities Have Not Paid Auditing Fees. It Is Not Because They Are Reluctant But They Don't Have The Money To Pay The Auditor. So, You Can't Say That You Are Throwing Money At Somebody Who Doesn't Have Money. Lots Of The Things That The Municipalities Can't Do Are Because Resources Are Not There.

How Many Murders Are Committed In Gauteng, Or In The Western Cape, In A Month? A Week? A Day? An Hour? But Of Course We Are Not Allowed To Know For Sure. In Close And Direct Imitation Of His Apartheid Models, Selebi Ensures That No Statistics About Crime May Be Published Regularly In The Press.

I Think Anybody Who Knows Anything About South Africa And The South African Economy Would Know That One Of The Big Constraints To Growth And Development Is Skills Shortages. So All Of Us, Need To Come At This Thing As Vigorously As Is Possible And, Of Course, The Private Sector Has The Capacity To Take It On Board.

South Africa Now Needs Skilled And Educated People To Say 'how Do We Manage And Develop This Democratic Country?'