“We are going to intensify BBBEE. We are going to sharpen our teeth and determination when it comes to unemployment.
We expect that our black industrialists will have up to R24 billion made available to them to redefine the way business is done in our country,” he said at an ANC summit for academics and professionals in Johannesburg last night.
Ramaphosa encouraged black business to bring their ideas to the ANC. He then asked them to open their wallets to support the party’s local government elections campaign.
MT @SthembileCel: #ANCGP Help comes in various ways. "It could be a whisper here; a rand there. I see people sitting here with many rands"
— City Press Online (@City_Press) March 23, 2016
Ramaphosa urges delegates to be engaged & contribute to the success of the country #ANCSummit via @SthembileCel pic.twitter.com/0ThOagA39J
— City Press Online (@City_Press) March 23, 2016
RT @SthembileCel: #ANCGP Ramaphosa: we are obsessed with empowering black South Africans. We are fanatical about it as government
— City Press Online (@City_Press) March 23, 2016
The ANC’s relations with business and academics were essential to speeding up the party’s efforts to change the country. Academics and professionals had started the ANC and had been agents of change during the country’s history, he said.
– News24