South Africa’s national development plan suggests the country can create 11 million new jobs by 2030, according to news site iafrica.com.

The plan also shows that job creation is not a magic bullet for greater prosperity, with the plan’s vision statement saying: “The things that drive growth are not always the things that drive job creation – and the things that are good for job creation are not always good for growth.”

The ambitious plan would increase overall employment from 13m today to nearly double that - 24m within two decades, reducing unemployment from 27% to 6%, according to iafrica.com.

As Recruiter.co.uk reported 3 November, unemployment dropped by 1% in Q2 2011.

The development plan also says that a more open approach to immigration and making it easier to fire people would benefit the nation and its job creation plan.