WC govt sets sights on creating trillion-rand economy by 2035
Western Cape Infrastructure MEC Tertuis Simmers and Premier Alan Winde want the province's economy to grow between 4% and 6% a year.
CAPE TOWN - The Infrastructure MEC in the Western Cape, Tertuis Simmers, said his department would be key to achieving the cape's goal of becoming a trillion-rand economy by 2035.
Premier Alan Winde launched the province's Growth for Jobs Strategy in Cape Town on Monday, alongside his MECs.
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Winde and Simmers want the cape's economy to eventually grow between 4% and 6% a year, generating some 600,000 jobs.
"We have projects that are implementation ready. Some of them are already hitting the ground from a road perspective, where we launched a R532 million project that will create well over 2,000 job opportunities as part of that journey towards our contribution to the G4J [Growth for Jobs] Strategy."
