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President Cyril Ramaphosa has told parliament he is committed to ensuring the social compact announced in his February state of the nation address will materialise, despite business telling the Sunday Times the process had stalled.
'Regardless of the objections from any of the stakeholders, the commitment towards attaining a social compact remains,' says presidency spokesperson Vincent Magwenya.
Work on reaching an agreement on the social compact is still under way.
President Cyril Ramaphosa says that a framework for a social compact has been developed that identifies priority actions to achieve higher levels of investment and growth, increase employment, protect the rights of workers and expand support for the unemployed and tackle extreme poverty.
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