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THE Thabo Mbeki Foundation has urged the government to rework the Economic Reconstruction and Recovery Plan as it was not implementable in its current form.
President Cyril Ramaphosa released the ERRP late last year as part of ensuring the reconstruction and recovery of the economy which was damaged by the COVID-19 pandemic.
Mbeki’s foundation said government and the country must accept that the government’s ERRP, published on 15 October 2020, was essentially a Vision, not the required Transformative Plan.
“Accordingly, because of the size and strategic importance of the challenge to eradicate poverty, alienation and inequity, NEDLAC must reconvene to conclude a Strategic Economic Reconstruction and Recovery Plan (SERRP), Government must convene NEDLAC for this purpose as soon as possible,” said the TMF.
The TMF added that NEDLAC should table the SERRP by 30 June 2021.
The SERRP should be a three-year-plan covering the period July 2021 –
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