Response to South Africa's economic recovery plan

South Africa’s President Cyril Ramaphosa is back in Parliament on Wednesday, where political parties will debate his economic recovery plan that promised to create hundreds of thousands of jobs, growing the economy by 3%, spending R1 trillion on infrastructure and hiring thousands of assistant teachers. The plan amongst other things prioritises energy security supply and infrastructure investment. Ramaphosa also said they will create 60 000 jobs for labour intensive maintenance and construction of municipal infrastructure and rural roads. The government would also hire 6 000 community health workers and nursing assistants as part of the implementation of the National Health Insurance.To take the conversation further we are now joined on the line by: • Redge Nkosi is an executive director at First Source money • Andries Opperman is an economics lecturer at Aros• Amanda Fitchen is an economist