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South Africa Has Faced Many Problems In The Past. You Would Understand Those Problems If You Understood The History Of The Struggle To Get Rid Of Apartheid And The Struggle To Establish Democracy.

Gloom And Despondency Have Never Defeated Adversity. Trying Times Need Courage And Resilience. Our Strength As A People Is Not Tested During The Best Of Times.

We Are Continuously Looking At The Question Of Increasing The Capacity Of Home Affairs And That Is Why Home Affairs Introduced Mobile Units, To Be Able To Reach People. The Matter Of The Establishment Of The Social Security Agency Was To Deal With The Matter Of The More Efficient Distribution Of These Grants, The Reductions In The Levels Of Corruption And Greater Sensitivity. You Are Dealing With Vulnerable People, Like The Elderly, Who You Needed To Find A Way Of Addressing, So That People Don't Have To Be Waiting In The Sun In The Queue, And So On.

When I Was In Government, The South African Economy Was Growing At 4.5% - 5%. But Then Came The Global Financial Crisis Of 2008/2009, And So The Global Economy Shrunk. That Hit South Africa Very Hard, Because Then The Export Markets Shrunk, And That Includes China, Which Has Become One Of The Main Trade Partners With South Africa. Also, The Slowdown In The Chinese Economy Affected South Africa. The Result Was That During That Whole Period, South Africa Lost Something Like A Million Jobs Because Of External Factors.

We Are In The Process Of Negotiating An Agreement With The United States. We Will Be Negotiating Agreements With India And China. We Are In The Process Of Negotiating An Agreement With Mercosur, South America. So There Are A Number Of These Trade Agreements In The Major Markets Of The World.