Mashaba promises ActionSA will create millions of jobs if elected into power
ActionSA president, Herman Mashaba, told hundreds of his party's supporters that the organisation would never make promises it could not keep as he detailed its election manifesto.
FILE: ActionSA president Herman Mashaba at the party's inaugural policy conference at the Birchwood Hotel in Boksburg on 12 September 2023. Picture: X/HermanMashaba
JOHANNESBURG - ActionSA president, Herman Mashaba, told hundreds of his party's supporters that the organisation would never make promises it could not keep as he detailed its election manifesto.
Mashaba called on South Africans to get rid of what he termed an incompetent government.
He told the crowd gathered at Ellis Park on Saturday afternoon that if the party was voted in to govern the country, it would create 4.8 million jobs by 2029.
"We can not be celebrating people depending on R350 or R370 a month. We are sad that the success of the ActionSA government should be judged on how many people we will be able to get off the social welfare system. However, we will continue supporting those in need of social grants."
He further said that reviving the economy would be an ActionSA-led government priority.
"South Africans want to work but job-killing policies and poor quality of education are holding us back from unlocking an employment revolution. An ActionSA government will seek an average of 5% economic growth over five years by supporting entrepreneurs and decreasing the cost of doing business."