Urgent call for crisis summit on job losses in South Africa

A CRISIS summit on job losses is something that South Africa urgently needs in ‘ight of the recent spate of retrenchments across the country, says the chairperson of Parliament's Select Committee on Economic Development and Trade, Sonja Boshoff.

- JASON WOOSEY

She has urged the Minister of Trade, Industry and Competition, Parks Tau, to convene such a summit amid mass retrenchments and downsizing by big companies, which has become “far too routine” in South Africa.

“We do not need another national dialogue talk shop. Our economy is stagnant and paralysed by contradictory policies. Workers and communities are counting on decisive leadership,” Boshoff said.