the "ready to govern" document envisaged a democratic state with ultimate responsibility for coordinating, planning and guiding the development of the economy towards a sustainable growth pattern’ in cooperation with the trade union movement, business and other organs of society.

umqulu othi ‘ready to govern’ wawuhlose umbuso wentando yeningi labantu onesibopho esikhulu ‘sokuxhumanisa, ukuhlela kanye nokuqondisa ukuthuthukiswa komnotho ukuze kuthuthukiswe umnotho ogcinekayo’ ngokubambisana nenhlangano yezinyunyana zabasebenzi, amabhizinisi kanye nezinye izinhlaka zomphakathi.
