Mr President,

We all understand and know we have high rates of unemployment. Now the government has announced plans, along the lines of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, to initiate several mega projects to develop infrastructure with a view to industrialise our country, and generate much-needed skills and create jobs. You are to be commended for these bold steps.

Busy as you are, and occupied with many other issues each day, we at IndigoCube would hope you could take a few minutes to read, process and internalise these issues we are raising.

The first problem is that infrastructure development projects are temporal by their very nature. While they are effective as short-term quick fixes, we should find a way to use them as the basis for longer-term programmes aimed at the sustainable development of jobs and skills.