Deputy Chair, I trust my time will not be affected by these disruptions. The DA will stimulate our economy by providing policy certainty and direction for growth and by ensuring a job in every home. The DA will eradicate employment corruption and ensure labour unions protect the interests of their workers, and not just their pals.
Under a DA government, we will root out corruption and send corrupt officials and politicians to jail for 15 years. The DA has a plan to stimulate the manufacturing industry and unleashing small business growth, creating job opportunities. We will introduce a jobseeker's allowance for the jobless youth and unveil a job centres project. For small businesses, we will provide funding and reduce the red tape, implementing a tax amnesty and exempt them from certain labour and black economic empowerment, BEE, laws, making them more competitive in creating thousands of jobs. These workers, however, will need an effective cheap transport system, yet the ANC-led
Passenger Rail Agency of South Africa, Prasa, is unable to provide a timely service and cannot maintain the train infrastructure. The ones who suffer are the commuters, who are constantly late for work, while the ANC are surrounded by their protection services and driven around in their blue light brigades. Taxis and driving have become more and more expensive with the ANC government insisting on e- tolls, coupled with the value- added tax, VAT, increase.
In the past, the Expanded Public Works Programme, EPWP, jobs were only provided for ANC card-holders, while those without political connections had no hope of accessing job opportunities. Many were forced to submit to sex and cash-for-jobs scams, out of shear desperation to improve their lives. This is not ... [Interjections.]