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Mboweni said things had changed in the past two decades and that the country’s unemployed workers were being left behind. When he returned to South Africa from exile in 1990, he explained, eight out of 10 restaurant workers were South African.
“The other two were probably from Malawi or Zimbabwe. Today almost 100% are not South African, ”he said. “The new economy that we are getting into after the lifting of the blockade must answer that question. Any establishment wishing to reopen must have a new labor market policy that gives priority to South Africans but does not discriminate [foreigners]”Mboweni said.
“The proportion of South Africans who work in a restaurant must be higher than that of non-South Africans, ”he said.
Meanwhile, the IFP announced in January that it planned to introduce a new bill that proposed job rationing whereby companies would be forced to prioritize South Africans over foreigners.
At the time, IFP MP Liezl van der Merwe said she would test proposed legislation to ensure that a certain percentage, or a certain quota, of certain skills must go to people from outside the country who are in the country legally but most jobs should be reserved for South Africans.
The party suggested that the proposed quota would be 80:20 with companies required to ensure that at least 80% of their employees are South African.
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