Employment

THE ANC’s KwaZulu-Natal chairperson, Sihle Zikalala, has urged President Cyril Ramaphosa’s administration to ensure that general and semi-skilled jobs were reserved only for South Africans. “If you talk about petrol attendants and people working in restaurants and say those jobs shouldn’t be protected for South Africans, where do you expect people without skills to work? It is easy the private sector to employ foreign nationals because they will not demand the labour rights that are enjoyed by South Africans,” he said. On the the ANC’s Radical Economic Transformation (RET) policy, he said: “RET is not implemented through hooliganism or factionalism.”