The Government of National Unity GNU is committed to fostering economic growth, tackling unemployment and poverty and dealing with corruption in South Africa.
This according to President Cyril Ramaphosa who participated in a fireside discussion at the Association of Southeast Asian Nations ASEAN Business and Investment Summit held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
The President said South Africa's democratic election processes in 2024 resulted in the formation of the GNU adding that the GNU is "working extremely well", despite coming from differing political homes.
"As the GNU we identified three priorities that we wanted to work on. The first one is to engender economic growth and to create jobs. With 32 unemployed people in our country, we are having a serious challenge. So, we feltto engender economic growth and to create jobs as the first priority.
"Our second priority was to address poverty. Poverty is still rife in our country, and it really emanates from ourcolonial past and our apartheid past which in many ways engineered that there should be continued poverty, and we felt as the GNU that we should address this in a pointed way and to reduce the cost of living.
"The third priority we identified was to create and ensure that we have a capable, ethical and developmental state. We are trying to enforce that and enhance that in the various levels of our government," President Ramaphosa said.