âââ 11:34 Mon, 12 Apr 2021 President Cyril Ramaphosa says one of the ways to grow the South African economy is by âharnessing the job-creating potential of the digital economyâ. The country is still reeling from the effects of Covid-19, where over two million people lost their jobs as a result of the various lockdowns. âWe have to both recover the ground that we have lost due to the coronavirus pandemic, and to gain new ground by placing our economy on a fundamentally different growth trajectory,â Ramaphosa said in his weekly newsletter on Monday. âOne of the concrete ways that we can do this is by harnessing the job-creating potential of the digital economy, whose growth has only been accelerated by the coronavirus pandemic.â