”With South Africa’s economic outlook unlike any experienced before, the time was
ripe for parties to work together and more so, in the area of industrial policy, to
construct a collective agreement that quickly and with minimal angst and anxiety
settles the vexed issue of wages and brings all stakeholders together to jointly
formulate a framework focused on re-building and repairing public infrastructure,
alleviating bottlenecks constraining economic growth, while ensuring the long-term
sustainability of the metals and engineering sector, which is critical to the
reconstruction, reindustrialization and development of the economy.”