Special Cabinet meeting on economy postponed
A scheduled special Cabinet meeting to discuss the state of the South African economy has been postponed to January 2016, President Jacob Zuma’s office said on Friday.
“The special Cabinet meeting on the economy that was scheduled to take place today on December 18, 2015, in Pretoria has been postponed to take place after recess next month,” said presidential spokesman Bongani Majola.
According to the presidency, Cabinet had decided at its last sitting of the year to “convene a special Cabinet session on the economy to intensively discuss the impact of the global economic crisis on the domestic economy and review the nine-point plan that was announced in the 2015 SONA [state of the nation address] ahead of the Cabinet lekgotla to be held next month.”
Majola said the meeting would take place in January before the lekgotla.
He added that the preparatory meeting of the economic cluster that was supposed to take place on December 15 had also been postponed to 2016. - ANA