South Africa's garment industry may create 100,000 new jobs

According to South African media reports, Johann Baard, head of the South African Garment Industry Association, said that if the South African trade union organizations accept the newly proposed industry employment plan of the Garment Industry Association, the South African garment industry will create nearly 100,000 jobs in the next two years. Baard also said that the drop in employment rate has become a social issue that has plagued the South African government. The new plan put forward by the Clothing Industry Association will try to maintain the current employment relationship in the industry and help the South African garment industry by adopting a more reasonable model of salary and salary. Lesotho and Swaziland were pressed to promote the effective recovery of South Africa’s garment industry. The new employer’s plan points out that the wages of workers in rural areas should be 220 rands/week, and that in urban areas should be 300 rand/week. Meanwhile, the new labor model will further stimulate more local garment owners to increase their spending on the South African garment industry. Input. According to data provided by the Garment Industry Association of South Africa, the competitiveness of South Africa’s apparel industry has fallen significantly over the past 10 years. In 2004, there were approximately 1,200 factories in 1,200 factories in South Africa, but as of September 2010, it had dropped to 948 factories, and there were about 56,341 employees in the industry. Wayne van Rheede, head of the Garment and Textile Trade Organization of South Africa, said that the new development plan for the apparel industry is expected to be introduced in mid-December of this year. The introduction of this plan will help South Africa's garment industry in the future.