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    "id": 557174,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/557174/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Sakaja",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 13131,
        "legal_name": "Johnson Arthur Sakaja",
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    "content": "In South Africa, they started a wage credit programme under the Employment Tax Incentive Act of 2014. In one year, it has led to 270,000 young people being employed with 29,000 employers claiming tax credits from the scheme in the 12 months it has been in effect. Just in one year 270,000 young people have benefited. I want to commend the National Treasury; I also want to urge Members to support this Bill because it provides the framework for implementing such tax credit incentives. The US Department for Labour has been doing this for a long time. They have what they call the “Work Opportunity Tax Credit” that targets employers hiring individuals from certain target groups that have consistently been left out. The youth are some of them. Even the Czech Republic in Eastern Europe has a wage subsidy programme that has increased employment by between 12 and 16 per cent. I think it is time we, as a country, as well had such an arrangement in place."
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