African National Congress ANC Secretary-General Fikile Mbalula says the partys upcoming National Executive Committee NEC meeting will focus on ways of growing the economy and job creation.
Mbalulas comments come as the countrys unemployment rate increased to 32.9 percent in the first quarter of 2025.
Mbalula was speaking to the media in Sedibeng, Gauteng after delivering the Duma Nokwe Memorial address.
Mbalula says next weeks budget by Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana should be pro-poor and address South Africas unemployment crisis.
What we supported as the ANC, was a budget that is pro-growth, and that addressed unemployment, and that is also pro-poor. Pro-poor in the sense that it seeks to intervene and address what is in the ANC manifesto of addressing the question of social spending. But over and above that, we need to respond to the challenges that are hampering growth, but at the same time that leads to employment creation in our country,