The ANC-led government has also partnered with private sector to ensure that they implement a programme that protects the existing jobs across sectors whilst taking active steps to ensure that retrenchments are the last consideration and the review of the retrenchment procedures. This is evident in the new Mining Charter that was well accepted by the mining sector and across business, and the employment tax incentives targeting millions of young people across South Africa who have been excluded from participating in the economy actively and as a result suffer from disproportionality from