Anc 2014 election manifesto

A BETTER LIFE FOR ALL
SOUTH AFRICA FORWARD
TOGETHER WE MOVE
2014 ELECTION MANIFESTO
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One of the greatest leaders ever produced by our people and our movement is gone, yet
Madiba’s revolutionary spirit continues to inspire our efforts to ensure the poor and the
working class truly benefit from the material fruits of the freedom for which he fought.
Let us together re-double our efforts to realise his vision, shared by his people and
humanity, for a better life for all, for a better Africa and a better world.
WE DEDICATE THIS MANIFESTO TO
TATA MADIBA
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THE PRESIDENT
MESSAGE FROM
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Fellow South Africans,
Together we move South Africa forward!
Twenty years ago we began a new journey to eradicate the
oppressive legacy of colonialism and apartheid. It has been 20 years
of freedom and democracy in which we have made significant steps
towards achieving the vision of the Freedom Charter.
This has been a collective South African effort, personified in the
greatness of the father of our nation, Tata Madiba, to whom we
dedicate this manifesto.
The lives of our people have vastly improved and South Africa is a
much better place than it was before 1994.
Over the last five years, the ANC government has worked together
with all South Africans to do more to fight poverty and unemployment,
and to reduce inequality.
Working together, we have defended and consolidated the social
gains achieved since 1994, despite the negative global economic
situation. More of our people have been lifted out of extreme poverty;
we have created more jobs than before; expanded social grants,
housing and basic services to our people; and further improved
access to better education and health care.
Our journey continues.
Our struggle has now reached the second phase, in which we will
implement radical socio-economic transformation to meaningfully
address poverty, unemployment and inequality.
More than ever before, we must work together to promote nation
building, unity and social solidarity as we free the economy from the
shackles of the past. We cannot rest until the economy is in the hands
of the people who were historically excluded from participation.
Far-reaching economic transformation is the central question this
election must answer. In this manifesto the ANC provides clear, bold
and decisive answers to this question.
This manifesto is the result of a wide consultation process with our
allies, involving communities and key sectors of society including
workers, business, religious, youth and women’s organisations and
several academics. We will continue to consult as we embark on its
implementation.
Together we move South Africa forward!
Vote ANC for a better life for all!
Jacob Gedleyihlekisa Zuma
ANC President
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PLAN
AND
OUR
VISION
South Africa has begun a new and far-reaching phase of its
democratic transition.
For more than a century, the ANC has led our people in their
aspiration for a united, non-racial, non-sexist, democratic
and prosperous society, as the strategic goal of the National
Democratic Revolution.
That vision, inscribed in the Freedom Charter, inspired the sacrifices
that brought freedom and democracy.
That vision became the soul of our constitutional democracy after
April 1994. It has been the guiding light of our programme to
reconstruct and develop our country after centuries of colonialism
and apartheid.
Over the last 20 years, the first phase of our democratic transition,
our people’s dignity has been restored. Non-racial majority rule
based on one-person, one-vote has brought about government
based on the will of the people. Today, South Africa is a better
place in which to live. The lives of millions have improved.
Yet the challenges still facing our country are immense. Poverty,
inequality and unemployment still affect the lives of many people.
Corruption continues to erode our social fabric and undermine our
development efforts. Our economy continues to feel the effects of
the global economic slowdown, making our goals all the harder
to reach.
The ANC is committed to working with our people to address
these challenges and move South Africa further forward towards
the achievement of the vision of the Freedom Charter.
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The second phase of our democratic transition calls for bold and
decisive steps to place the economy on a qualitatively different path that
eliminates poverty and unemployment, creates sustainable livelihoods
and substantially reduces inequality.
The National Development Plan (NDP) aims to eradicate poverty,
increase employment and reduce inequality by 2030. The NDP lays
the foundation for long-term planning for this radical socio-economic
agenda over the next 20 years. Its implementation will be a people-
driven process to which everyone is able to contribute. Where
appropriate, the plan will be adapted to meet changing conditions
and incorporate key learnings.
Within the NDP vision, critical policy instruments will continue to drive
government’s policy agenda. These include:
• the New Growth Path, which shifts the trajectory of economic
development,
• the National Infrastructure Plan, which guides the roll-out of
infrastructure to improve people’s lives,
• the Industrial Policy Action Plan, which supports the re-industrialisation
of the economy.
In the next five years, we will build on the progress made in
implementing our 2009 Manifesto priorities:
• Creation of more jobs, decent work and sustainable
livelihoods for inclusive growth
• Rural development, land reform and food security
• Education
• Health
• Fighting crime and corruption
We will also continue to expand access to housing and basic
services as part of our commitment to build integrated and sustainable
human settlements.
These goals require that we build a democratic developmental state
capable of mobilising all sectors and boldly intervening in the economy
in favour of workers and the poor. Working with all sectors of society, we
will need to create conditions for the promotion of social cohesion and
nation building and contribute to a better Africa and a just world.
The commitments of this manifesto are coherent, realistic and
achievable. As the leading political representative of South Africans,
with unmatched experience, capacity and political determination, in
the next five years the ANC will work to mobilise and unite all our
people around this manifesto.
TOGETHER WE MOVE SOUTH AFRICA FORWARD
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OUR KEY
TO MOVE
FORWARD
COMMITMENTS
SOUTH AFRICA
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• Institutionalise long-term planning, integration and coordination capacity within the
state to drive consolidated industrialisation and infrastructure development programmes
for inclusive growth and job creation.
• Mobilise and leverage the active participation of all sectors in these bold initiatives.
The private sector must actively contribute to inclusive growth, investment, social
development and economic transformation.
• Promote local procurement to increase domestic production and the creation of
decent jobs by directing the state to progressively buy at least 75% of its goods and
services from South African producers and support small enterprises, co-operatives
and broad-based black empowerment.
• Accelerate the roll-out of our massive economic and social infrastructure programme
especially in energy, public transport, ICT and water supply to unlock economic
opportunities, create jobs and improve the quality of life of our people.
• Address the needs of the youth for empowerment, education and job creation through
a multi-pronged approach that creates job placements and internship schemes and
sets aside 60% of employment and empowerment in infrastructure and other projects
for youth and promote youth employment and training incentive schemes.
• Promote investment and access to credit in the productive economy by the financial
sector, including development finance institutions, through bolder and far reaching
reforms.
• Consolidate the public works programme, creating 6 million work opportunities by
2019. Many of which will be of a long duration.
• Investigate the modality for the introduction of a national minimum wage as one of the
key mechanisms to reduce income inequality.
• Take steps to strengthen existing laws to ensure faster change in employment equity
in all workplaces by enforcing an accelerated implementation of employment
equity targets.
• Enforce measures to eliminate abusive work practises in atypical work and
labour broking.
ECONOMY AND JOBS
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• Implement rural development focusing on meeting basic needs,
land reform and rural enterprise development, supported by
localised markets, credit facilities and economic infrastructure.
• Increase investment in agricultural infrastructure in support of
small-holder farmer development, prioritising former homeland
communal areas.
• Continue to improve the tenure security and administration of
people living in communal areas with emphasis on women’s
tenure security.
• Strengthen support for co-operatives in marketing and supply
activities to enable small scale producers to enter formal value
chains and take advantage of economies of scale. This will include
targeting public institutions as primary buyers of agricultural goods
and support for small scale producers’ access to municipal markets.
• Expand the Food for All programme as part of the national
integrated food and nutrition policy for procuring and distributing
affordable essential foodstuffs directly to poor communities.
• Accelerate the settlement of remaining land claims submitted before
the cut-off date of 1998.
• Re-open the period for the lodgement of claims for restitution of land
for a period of five years, commencing in 2014.
• Codify the exceptions to the 1913 cut-off date for the descendants
of the Khoi and San, and identify affected heritage sites and
historical landmarks.
RURAL DEVELOPMENT, LAND
REFORM AND FOOD SECURITY
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• Ensure all South Africans have access to adequate human settlements
and quality living conditions through programmes that provide one
million housing opportunities for qualifying households over the next
five years, and providing basic services and infrastructure in all
existing informal settlements.
HUMAN SETTLEMENTS AND
BASIC SERVICES
• Improve and expand education and training by making Grade R
compulsory, eradicating adult illiteracy, and further improving the
quality of basic education up to the senior grade. The FET college
sector will be expanded, with greater support for the needs of
students, and compulsory community service for all graduates will
be introduced.
EDUCATION AND TRAINING
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• Enter a new phase in the implementation of the National Health
Insurance (NHI) through the creation of a publicly funded and
publicly administered NHI Fund, strengthening and expanding
the free primary health care programme, improving management
of public hospitals, and reducing the costs of private health care.
• Intensify the campaign against HIV and AIDS to ensure at least
4.6 million people are enrolled in the anti-retroviral programme.
We will also ensure chronic medication is available and delivered
closer to where patients live, benefiting hundreds of thousands of
South Africans.
• Intensify the fight against corruption in both the public and private
sectors through measures to restrict public servants from doing
business and holding public officials individually liable for losses
incurred as result of corrupt actions. We will pursue action against
companies involved in bid rigging, price fixing and corruption in
past and current infrastructure build programmes.
• Require any ANC member or ANC public representative found
guilty by a court of law to step down from any leadership
positions in the ANC, government and society. Where this has
not happened, the ANC will take firm action in line with the
provisions of the ANC constitution.
HEALTH
FIGHTING CORRUPTION AND CRIME
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20 YEARS
AND
OF FREEDOM
DEMOCRACY
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We are proud that South Africa is a much better place than
it was before 1994.
It has been:
20 YEARS OF NATION BUILDING AND
RECONCILIATION
• Discriminatory laws have been abolished and segregated
institutions replaced by unified ones. The Truth and
Reconciliation Commission helped heal the wounds of the
past. We sing one national anthem, fly one national flag and
embrace our cultural diversity.
• In the past 5 years there have been several moments that have
exemplified our sense of a common nationhood. In 2010, we
welcomed the world to the first FIFA World Cup tournament
in Africa. Every year, on Nelson Mandela International Day,
South Africans volunteer 67 minutes of their time in support of a
worthy cause. Most recently, we came together as one people
to bid farewell to the father of our nation, Tata Madiba.
20 YEARS OF DEMOCRATISATION
• Our constitutional democracy has advanced the right of
our people to equality, to protection against racial, gender
and other discrimination, and to the progressive realisation
of access to the basic necessities of life. An independent
judiciary has been established and entrenched. Representative
and participatory democracy has been consolidated.
• In the past 5 years, as we advanced the rights of our people,
we have remained true to the values of the Constitution.
We have ensured the policies we implement advance the
constitutional imperative to improve the quality of life of all
citizens and free each person’s potential.
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20 YEARS OF RECONSTRUCTION, DEVELOPMENT
AND GROWTH
• We have gone a long way to overcome the systemic divisions
of apartheid in the economy, education, health and human
settlements. The lives of most South Africans have greatly improved.
• In the past 5 years we have worked together to achieve further
improvements in the lives of all South Africans.
20 YEARS OF ADVANCING WORKERS INTERESTS
AND ASPIRATIONS
• The ANC has safeguarded and entrenched the hard-won rights
of workers, including trade union workplace organising, collective
bargaining, equal pay for equal work, health and safety, affirmative
action, skills development, minimum wages for workers in vulnerable
sectors, the right to strike, and the right to peaceful protest.
• In the past 5 years, the ANC has begun to put in place measures
to address labour broking and the casualisation of labour to
protect vulnerable workers. Unemployment insurance benefits
have been improved.
20 YEARS OF CHAMPIONING THE STRUGGLE FOR
GENDER EQUALITY
• In democratic South Africa, women’s voices are heard and women’s
issues are seriously addressed. Institutional mechanisms have been
established to protect women’s rights and dignity. Progress has been
made in freeing women from customs and practices that undermine
their rights. Progress in meeting basic needs such as housing and
access to water has especially benefited women, redressing past
inequalities. More girls are in school and tertiary institutions than
ever before and more women are in employment. Women continue
to benefit from economic empowerment programmes and they are
the major recipients of social security programmes.
• In the past 5 years we established the Ministry for Women,
Children and People with Disabilities. We have taken up active
campaigns against the abuse of women and children, improved
representation of women in parliament and government, and
promoted a policy of equal representation of women and men in
all institutions of government. We have continued to confront the
challenge of violence against women and children and prioritise it
in our strategies directed at creating a safe and secure society.
20 YEARS OF PEACE AND SECURITY FOR ALL
• The politically-inspired violence that engulfed many parts of our
country was brought to an end. Overall levels of serious crime have
been reduced. We are working together to transform our security
forces and judicial system to ensure they reflect the national and
gender character of our country. We have ensured fairness and
equality for all before the law and enabled access to justice to
millions more South Africans.
• In the past 5 years we have strengthened special institutions to fight
corruption, with firm action taken against corrupt public servants,
public representatives and private sector companies.
THE DEVELOPMENTAL CHALLENGE
The progress made in the first 20 years of democracy to eradicate the
legacy of more than 340 years of colonialism and apartheid sets the
foundation for what still needs to be done.
In this manifesto we set out the programmes and strategies that will help
free our people from the economic and social legacy of apartheid.
Our challenges still remain. We must continue to address our people’s
basic needs.
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BUILDING A
DEVELOPMENTAL
DEMOCRATIC
STATE
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The ANC is committed to building a democratic developmental
state able to lead efforts to overcome unemployment and
poverty and reduce inequality. The developmental state will
play a strategic guiding role in the economy, and decisively
intervene in the interests of the people, particularly the workers
and the poor. The state, in partnership with the private sector,
organised labour and civil society, must create the conditions to
accelerate economic growth and stimulate job creation.
It must be a state that mobilises all of society in furthering
development, broadening access to public services, fighting
corruption, and holding public officials accountable.
IN THE NEXT FIVE YEARS THE ANC WILL:
Institutionalise long-term planning
• We will establish the institutional mechanisms and build the
necessary capacity within the state to undertake long-term planning,
drawing where necessary on the expertise that exists in wider
society. This will go a long way in coordinating and integrating
strategies for growth and development.
Drive infrastructure and industrial development
• The skills and capabilities of the state will be improved and
partnerships for delivery with the private sector, trade unions and
community structures will be strengthened.
• Additional engineering, project planning and financial management
skills will be brought into the state.
• Government will fast-track implementation, reduce regulatory
delays, improve public and private sector capacity, combat
private sector corruption, collusion and profiteering, and ensure
coordinated action across all spheres of government.
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Align the development mandate of state-owned enterprises
• The developmental mandate of state-owned enterprises,
development finance institutions (DFIs) and other public agencies
will be re-aligned to support radical economic transformation.
Forge a disciplined, people-centred and professional public service
• The Public Service Charter, which constitutes the basis of public
service reform, will be implemented. It commits the state to become
a model employer and an employer of choice for all those
committed to serving our people.
• The education and training of public servants will be promoted.
Through our skills development initiative we will turn every public
sector workplace into a training space and develop conscientious
public servants.
• To reduce reliance on outsourcing, we will enhance the capacity of
the state to directly provide goods and services.
Support and provide oversight for local government
• Where needed, additional national government support will be
provided to improve local government capacity in the delivery of
basic services.
• National and provincial government will oversee the performance
of municipalities and ensure that communities are empowered to
hold public representatives and public servants accountable.
Empower citizens to play a greater role in development
• We will strengthen existing forums of people’s participation and
enable our people to play a greater role in development through
partnerships with a range of community and social organisations.
A DEMOCRATIC STATE
In the last 20 years
• We have transformed an undemocratic, unrepresentative,
oppressive and corrupt state, serving a minority, into a unitary,
non-racial, non-sexist democratic state, answerable to and
representative of all South Africans.
• We have enjoyed an uninterrupted period of peace and political
stability.
• We have consolidated institutions of democracy.
In the last 5 years
• We have laid the foundation for long-term planning and
coordination, for monitoring and evaluation.
• Public services are more efficient. We have reduced waiting
times for the collection of IDs and turnaround time for social grant
applications. Our tax collection and administration systems are
more efficient.
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ECONOMY
AND JOBS
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The long period of sustained economic growth between 1994 and
2008 had a positive effect on growth, the size of the economy, a
stable fiscus and job creation. However, the structural faultlines
of the economy still remain.
The radical second phase of our transition must bring about the
economic emancipation of our people.
In the next five years, despite the global economic outlook,
we are determined to act decisively and boldly to increase
investment in the real economy and infrastructure, stimulate
faster levels of inclusive growth, speed up social development,
substantially reduce poverty and unemployment, and place the
economy on a qualitatively different growth path.
FOR THIS TO BE ACHIEVED:
• All of us – government, business, labour and social organisations –
must actively contribute to economic transformation.
• The state will play a role in mobilising and leveraging the active
participation of all sectors in these bold initiatives.
• The private sector, which accounts for 70% of the South African
economy, must actively contribute to inclusive growth, investment,
social development and economic transformation.
THE ANC UNDERTAKES TO:
• consolidate the industrialisation and infrastructure expansion
programme with appropriate initiatives from the state;
• empower and promote education and employment for the youth;
• make the financial sector serve the real economy and people;
• implement a massive public works programme;
• advance equality and decent work in the workplace;
• build an extensive support network for small businesses and
co-operatives;
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ECONOMY AND JOBS
• From 1994 to the onset of the 2008 global financial crisis,
we experienced the longest recorded period of uninterrupted
economic growth. Growing at twice the rate of the last 19
years of apartheid.
• The national wealth, measured in terms of GDP, has grown to more
than R3.5 trillion, up from less than half a trillion rand in 1994.
• Government’s annual revenue has grown to R880 billion, up
from R112 billion in 1994.
In the last 5 years
• The economy regained the 1 million jobs lost as a result of the
2008 global economic crisis. Employment is now higher than
it has ever been.
• Since 1994, five million more people are working, with total
employment at 14 million.
• promote broad-based black economic empowerment;
• invest in science and technology; and
• advance rural development, land and agrarian reform and food
security.
Thesedecisiveinterventionswillrequirestrongerarticulationbetween
macro- and micro-economic policies biased towards more jobs,
decent work and sustainable livelihoods, and reducing inequality.
In carrying out our economic plan we will continue to promote a
national dialogue with all role-players to enhance inclusive economic
growth, and develop consensus on the urgent need to transform the
economy.
INDUSTRIALISATION AND
INFRASTRUCTURE EXPANSION
The massive expansion of infrastructure, combined with smart
industrial policy initiatives, will create decent work opportunities
and strengthen industrialisation.
Our industrial policy action plan will be scaled-up to bring
about significant structural change in the economy and build
and strengthen our domestic manufacturing capacity.
Our infrastructure programme will improve the lives of our
people,helpcreateaninclusiveeconomyandunlockopportunity.
The ICT infrastructure programme will impact fundamentally
on the economy and the connectivity of our people. Industrial
infrastructure will provide the production base for the future.
Social infrastructure of hospitals, schools, universities and clinics
will provide the foundation for improved service delivery. Rural
and agro-logistics infrastructure will expand rural production
and create sustainable rural livelihoods.
Job creation will be a priority of infrastructure programmes.
More than 250,000 jobs will be sustained through the
construction, operation and maintenance of infrastructure and
manufacture of local components. We will place more focus on
catalytic projects in energy, transport, ICT and water.
Promote local procurement to increase domestic production
• As a contribution to boosting local manufacturing and creating jobs at
home, the state will be directed to progressively implement the target
of buying at least 75% of its goods and services from South African
producers. The state’s buying power will support small enterprises,
co-operatives and broad-based black economic empowerment.
• Working together with all partners, we will run public campaigns to
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• We will ensure that large public entities such as Eskom and Transnet
buy specified goods for the infrastructure build programme locally.
Deploy incentives and secure industrial financing for productive
economic sectors
• We will integrate and align incentive initiatives such as the
Manufacturing Competitiveness Enhancement Programme (MCEP)
and speed up the roll-out of the special economic zone incentive.
• We will ensure secure and ongoing industrial funding by DFIs at
concessional rates for priority sectors and in support of job creation.
Beneficiate our mineral wealth and transform the mining sector
• Strategic minerals will be identified for policy interventions in the
manufacturing, energy, agriculture and infrastructure sectors. Active
measures will be taken to ensure security of supply of these minerals
to achieve national objectives such as industrialisation and local
beneficiation.
• The role of the state-owned mining company will be strengthened to
ensure it captures a share of mineral resource rents and equity and
contributes to the integrated value chains in the sector.
Work for regional industrialisation and integration
• We will work with our partners to ensure increased exports -
particularly manufactured and value-added exports.
• Working with other African states, we will take forward a regional
industrialisation agenda to ensure Africa becomes a manufacturing
and industrial power.
• Trade among African countries will be further promoted as part of
our effort to support regional integration to create large regional
markets to sustain industrialisation.
• We will work together with state-owned enterprises, development
finance institutions and the private sector to address infrastructural
needs in Africa.
• We will enhance our work to establish the BRICS development
bank, which will help finance infrastructure development in
developing countries.
Invest in infrastructure that unlocks economic opportunities and
creates jobs
• We will invest in infrastructure that can unlock the vast mineral wealth
of the country, create jobs and support the local beneficiation of
mineral deposits for the benefit of South Africans.
• We will create a climate for increased investment by the state, the
local private sector and foreign investors in infrastructure and the
real economy.
• In the northern mineral belt centred on Limpopo and Mpumalanga,
infrastructure will be provided to tap the vast reserves of coal,
chromium, palladium and platinum through provision of water,
railway lines, roads, energy and social infrastructure. It will also
have strong linkages with the North West and multiplier effects in
most of the other six provinces.
• In the Northern Cape, infrastructure will be developed to unlock
the manganese and iron-ore mining reserves, create jobs in the
province and strengthen economic links with the Western Cape
and Eastern Cape through mineral beneficiation.
• In the eastern part of the Eastern Cape, an integrated development
that includes a new Mzimvubu Dam and the rerouting of the N2
Wild Coast highway will be accompanied by expanded school
and clinic building, provision of sanitation and the current expansion
of the Mthatha airport.
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Produce more, cleaner energy and promote energy self-
sufficiency
• Our plan will ensure that there is domestic security of supply of coal
to existing and future power stations.
• Both traditional and green energy will be expanded to ensure
a platform for growth and social inclusion, including the use of
nuclear power for energy generation in a safe and environmentally
sustainable manner.
• Additional energy will be generated through the completion of
large power stations.
• Solar and wind power will feed into the electricity grid to increase
our generation capacity and promote environmental sustainability.
• Further hydro-electric energy will be secured domestically and
regionally for the national grid.
• A further 1.3 million homes will be installed with solar water
heaters, bringing the total to 1.75 million houses, covering more
than 7 million South Africans.
• The pace of oil and gas exploration – including shale gas
exploration – by the state and other players in the industry will
be intensified as part of the country’s effort to ensure national self-
sufficiency and energy security while promoting environmental
sustainability.
Better freight and passenger transport
• We will continue to invest in the upgrading and expansion of the
country’s rail, port and pipeline infrastructure as part of our effort to
shift freight transport from road to rail.
• The freight rail system will be modernised over the next five years,
with 1,100km of new railway lines. Fifteen thousand new train
coaches and wagons and 1,300 new locomotives will be
manufactured.
• The ports system will be expanded, with additional capacity added
at major ports such as Ngqura, Durban and Cape Town.
• World-class passenger trains will be introduced from 2015 as
3,600 new modern coaches replace outdated trains, bringing
safety and comfort to millions of commuters. In addition, we will
work towards opening new passenger railway lines to connect our
people in new human settlements, rural areas and townships.
• We will invest in improved passenger transport systems through
the development of bus-rapid transit systems to more cities, such
as Nelspruit, Bloemfontein, East London, Polokwane, Msunduzi,
Ekurhuleni and George.
• The improvement of our public transport system will create many
new jobs and contribute to skills development as buses, taxis,
locomotives and trains will be manufactured and assembled in
South Africa.
Rapidly expand access to and use of ICT infrastructure
• We will invest in a comprehensive plan to expand broadband
access throughout the country and substantially reduce the cost of
communication.
• We aim to connect all schools, public health and other government
facilities through broadband by 2020, and at least 90% of our
communities should have substantial and superfast broadband
capacity by 2020.
• Government will support and develop free-WiFi areas in cities,
towns and rural areas.
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• The local electronics sector and emerging entrepreneurs will be
stimulated as part of our efforts to support the manufacturing
industry.
Expand access to water
• We will continue to build new dams, expand the capacity of
existing dams, and improve water treatment infrastructure to bring
drinkable water to all South Africans.
• Further investment in water services infrastructure will be made to
replace ageing infrastructure, improve operation and maintenance
at municipal level and create the required capacity to manage the
water infrastructure.
• We will complete our plan to reverse pollution of water sources
caused by acid mine drainage and other causes within a five year
period.
• The state will allocate further financial and other resources to protect
the public and environment against the contamination of water
sources from industrial and commercial activities.
• Perpetrators, especially mining companies, will be held liable
for their actions through the enforcement of the “polluter-pays”
principle, which imposes a cost on those who damage or pollute
the environment.
INDUSTRIALISATION AND INFRASTRUCTURE
In the last 5 years
• Our industrial policy actions have resulted in more local production,
boosting jobs and industrial capacity.
• Investment has increased in key growth and job creating economic
sectors.
• More than R1 trillion has been invested in national infrastructure
projects, compared with R451 billion in the previous five years.
• Bus-rapid transit systems have been implemented in Johannesburg
and Cape Town and others are under construction in Durban,
Nelson Mandela Bay, Tshwane and Rustenburg.
• We have initiated Africa’s largest green energy programme.
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ENSURE MORE EMPOWERED,
EDUCATED AND EMPLOYED YOUTH
In the next 5 years, we will implement a multi-pronged approach to
tackle youth unemployment.
Provide job placements and internships schemes for youth
• Students from FET colleges and universities of technology will be
placed in workplaces to gain practical work experience.
• Through the campaign to turn the workspace into a training
space, the public sector will increase the number of spaces for FET
graduates and unemployed graduates to get experiential training.
Step up education and training opportunities for youth
• The intake of students for post-school education will be massively
expanded over the next five years, with the aim of enrolling the
majority of youth aged 18-23, especially in FET colleges.
• Our skills plan will direct contractors to help increase the number of
engineers and artisans, project managers, machine operators and
financial managers. State-owned enterprises will be required to increase
the number of training opportunities offered to young South Africans.
Increase the number of young people in public works schemes
• Through coordinating and scaling up existing programmes such as
the Community Work Programme, the Mass Literacy Campaign and
the National Rural Youth Services Corps, we aim to provide initial
exposure to a work opportunity to at least four million young people.
Provide youth target set-asides
• In the infrastructure programmes, 60% of jobs on new infrastructure
projects will be set aside for young people. This will be combined
with improved training by FET colleges. We will promote youth
set-asides in other sectors such as the green economy and business
processing services.
Promote youth co-operatives and youth enterprises
• Public agencies responsible for co-operatives and small enterprise
development will be required to develop special programmes
targeting youth co-operatives and youth enterprises.
Work with the private sector to expand the intake of young people
• The private sector will be encouraged to target youth and make
use of youth employment incentive schemes. We will introduce
new regulations to ensure there is no displacement of unsubsidised
workers to avoid a multi-tiered labour market within the same sector
in respect of both wage categories. All relevant stakeholders will
be consulted in implementation. The impact of the employment
incentive scheme will be evaluated within two years.
YOUTH DEVELOPMENT
• There are 1.7 million more young people (under 35) working than in
1995.
• Twice as many young people attended university and twice as many
graduated in 2012 than in 1994.
• The Public Works and Community Work programmes have created
6 million work opportunities for unemployed people, 40% of whom
were young people.
In the last 5 years
• We have doubled the amount available for student bursaries
benefiting deserving students in universities and FET colleges.
• The matric pass rate has increased from 60% in 2009 to 78.2% in 2013.
• We have promoted entrepreneurship development and provided
financial skills and mentorship.
• We have set aside R2.7 billion for youth entrepreneurship loans
and support.
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MAKE THE FINANCIAL SECTOR SERVE
THE ECONOMY AND THE PEOPLE
Our job creating and inclusive growth path will require
macroeconomic policies that address unemployment, poverty
and inequality; promotion of investment in the productive
economy; addressing the poor lending practices and excessive
charges in the financial sector; and making the financial sector
more inclusive and accessible.
Pursue macroeconomic policy that contributes to addressing
unemployment, poverty and inequality
• Our macroeconomic policy will back accelerated growth and long-
term economic stability. This will create the foundation for faster
industrial development and job creation. A competitive exchange
rate, stable prices and a well-managed government budget provide
the foundation for lasting improvements in the lives of all South
Africans, especially workers and the poor.
• Banks will be made safer through tougher regulation, and will be
encouraged to do more to lend to businesses, (especially new
businesses) in the context of effective regulation. In the next five
years the ANC will also support lending on easier terms through
government agencies so that investment in the productive economy
is properly financed.
Promote investment in the productive economy
• We will engage intensively with the financial sector to discuss the
investment patterns of this sector in line with the 2003 Growth and
Development Summit agreements. We will introduce measures to
make more affordable credit available for productive investment.
• The role of DFIs in increasing investment in the productive sectors of
the economy must be enhanced and the possibility of concessional
finance be investigated.
• We will take measures to combat erosion of the tax base. Practices
like profit-shifting and transfer pricing will be dealt with.
• Reinvestment in the productive sectors of the domestic economy will
be encouraged.
Address poor lending practices and excessive charges and fees
in the financial sector
• Measures will be taken to curb lending practices that lead to over-
indebtedness and associated abuses. In particular, extensive abuse
of garnishee orders to deduct money from the salaries of workers
will be stopped.
• We will continue to implement measures to reduce high bank fees
and charges on consumers and businesses.
Diversify the banking sector
• The Postbank will lead the expansion of access to banking services
to our people throughout the country.
• We will increase support for the formation of co-operative banks
that are democratically owned and controlled by their members.
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FINANCIAL SECTOR
• The 2003 Financial Sector Summit agreements set out clear
commitments from all parties to transform and diversify the
financial sector.
• The National Credit Act (2005) protects consumers in the credit
market and makes credit and banking services more accessible to
our people.
• The Co-operative Banks Act (2007) promotes co-operative
banking.
• Effective financial regulation helped cushion the economy
and stabilised the banking sector following the 2008 global
economic crisis.
In the last 5 years
• The proportion of South African adults with access to banking
services increased from 60% in 2009, to 75% in 2013.
• An amnesty for five million people with adverse credit records
was initiated.
PUBLIC WORKS FOR EMPLOYMENT
CREATION
Over the last 10 years the ANC has led one of the most
extensive and innovative public works programmes in the
world. The programme has provided work opportunities to
millions of unemployed South Africans. It ranges across many
sectors, including caring for the environment, providing home-
based care in poor communities, maintaining rural roads, and
constructing social infrastructure like clinics. These are not just
temporary make-work solutions. Public works programmes are
making a significant contribution to our economy.
• Massively expand public works programmes to create six million
work opportunities, many of long duration, with 80% of new
participants being unemployed youth. Greater attention will be
paid to skills development and subsequent employment.
• Integrate public works programmes with other government
programmes like adult basic education, community colleges, and
enterprise and co-operative development.
• Focus on the impact these public works programmes have on
poor communities, emphasising collective poverty alleviation, the
provision of services and assets, creating sustainable livelihoods
and fostering community cohesion.
• Improve coordination of public works programmes between
different departments.
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PROVIDE EXTENSIVE SUPPORT TO SMALL
BUSINESS AND CO-OPERATIVES
The development of small businesses and co-operatives are
critical means to empower our people, draw new entrants
into the economy, strengthen inclusive growth, build the social
economy, encourage social solidarity and create large numbers
of jobs.
While small business support has been strengthened over the
past five years, it is necessary to scale up support and expand
the number and viability of co-operatives and small businesses
to achieve our development vision.
• Continue to increase support for small enterprises and co-operatives
through the newly consolidated public agencies offering start-ups,
small enterprises and social enterprises coaching, incubation,
intensive support and financing.
• Build on the commitments in social accords to bring black-owned
small businesses and co-operatives into the supply chains of larger
companies and the public sector.
• Identify opportunities such as school-feeding schemes, where
local women can be mobilised through co-operatives to provide
affordable, nutritious food to children while earning a decent living
for themselves.
• Further mobilise the private sector and state-owned enterprises
to support the small business and co-operative sector through the
creation of incubators and working with enterprises in townships.
STRENGTHEN BROAD-BASED BLACK
ECONOMIC EMPOWERMENT
Our revised broad-based black economic empowerment policy will
strongly favour incentives for more decent employment creation;
investment in the productive sector by black entrepreneurs, including
small businesses and co-operatives; skills development and employment
equity; and collective forms of broad-based ownership.
PROMOTING EQUALITY AND DECENT
WORK AT THE WORKPLACE
An inclusive economy draws from the skills of all South Africans,
affirms our people and reduces income inequality as we undo
the legacy of discrimination at work on the grounds of race,
gender and disability.
• Investigate the modality for the introduction of a national minimum
wage as one of the key mechanisms to reduce income inequality.
• Strengthen the enforcement of provisions of the Employment
Equity Act that require all employers to report on disproportionate
income differentials at all wage levels and submit plans for their
progressive reduction.
• Take steps to ensure that collective bargaining takes place in all
sectors of the economy. Bargaining councils will also be used as
vehicles to promote greater equity in the economy through linking
access to state incentives and procurement to adherence to living
wage standards, and commitments to promoting wage equity in
collective agreements.
• Take steps to strengthen existing laws to ensure faster change in
employment equity in all workplaces by enforcing an accelerated
implementation of employment equity targets.
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• Provide greater protection for workers and employers in the
informal sector.
• Enforce measures to eliminate abusive work practices in atypical
work and labour broking.
• Expand the capacity of the Department of Labour and other
authorities to ensure full compliance with labour laws.
INVEST IN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
Research and innovation are essential to economic growth and
job creation. Science and technology offers an opportunity to
use cutting-edge methods and knowledge to build a modern,
advanced economy and bring new technologies to improve the
lives of the rural poor; improve access to health and education;
and drive new forms of industrialisation.
• Start the first phase of the construction of the Square Kilometre
Array (SKA) project by 2016, leading to investment in high-tech
engineering and ICT infrastructure. It will provide a platform to
develop skills in science and technology.
• Expand funding support for new research and development as part
of growing our innovation base and as a step to increase overall
research and development spend to at least 1.5% of GDP.
• Support innovation programmes at schools, universities and in
industry, with special emphasis on new ideas that address the real
problems of the economy and society.
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
• Through significant investment in science, technology and
innovation, we have achieved breakthroughs in nuclear technology,
astronomy, mining, energy and medicine.
• South Africa is home to some of the world’s best scientists and pioneers.
In the last 5 years
• We were chosen to co-host the Square Kilometre Array (SKA),
which will become the largest radio telescope in the world.
• The world’s first digital laser was developed by South African
scientists at the CSIR. A technology that will radically change the
way the world uses laser technology.
• We have improved water quality in South African dams through
innovation.
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RURAL DEVELOPMENT,
AGRARIAN REFORM
LAND AND
AND FOOD SECURITY
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The ANC remains committed to dealing with a century-old
injustice that rendered the majority of our people pariahs in
the land of their birth. The heinous 1913 Land Act and resultant
land dispossessions directly contribute to the ongoing problems
of poverty, unemployment and inequality.
The willing-buyer, willing-seller approach to land reform has
not worked, and is being replaced by the principle of just
and equitable compensation in line with Section 25 of the
Constitution.
Wehaveacomprehensiveprogrammeoflandreform,underpinned
by de-racialisation of the rural economy, democratic allocation and
use of land, and production for guaranteed food security.
• Continue to invest more in rural development through the further
implementation of the Comprehensive Rural Development
Programme, which focuses primarily on the provision of social and
economic rural infrastructure.
• Finalise and implement the Agricultural Policy Action, strengthen
agricultural production and agro-industries, and promote food security.
• Roll out and expand aquaculture projects both to enhance job
creation and promote access to high protein food.
• Increase investment in agricultural infrastructure – including irrigation,
storage facilities and fencing – in support of small-holder farmer
development, with former homeland communal areas being a priority.
• Strengthen agricultural college education through skills
development funds.
• Encourage further investment to promote the production of bio-fuels
from locally produced crops, which will create many thousands of
new jobs in agriculture.
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• Further intensify the development aspect of land reform, ensuring that
all land-reform farms are productive and contribute to food security.
• Enhance the success of our recapitalisation programme by
continuing to work with commercial farmers to support emerging
farmers in exchange for speedy implementation of the land reform
programme.
• Grow sustainable rural enterprises and industries through strong
rural-urban linkages; increased investment in rural industries and
agro-processing, trade development; and access to local markets
and financial services.
• Increase the number of youth participants in the National Rural
Youth Service Corps from the present 14,000 to 50,000 in the
next five years.
• Continue to improve the tenure security and administration of
people living in the communal areas, with emphasis on the security
of tenure of women.
• Further strengthen our support for co-operatives in marketing and
supply activities to enable small scale producers to enter formal
value chains and take advantage of economies of scale. This will
include targeting public institutions as primary buyers of agricultural
goods and support for small scale producers’ access to municipal
markets.
• Expand the Food for All programme as part of the national
integrated food and nutrition policy for procuring and distributing
affordable essential foodstuffs directly to poor communities.
• Accelerate the settlement of remaining land claims submitted before
the cut-off date of 1998.
• Re-open the period for the lodgement of claims for restitution of land
for a period of five years, commencing in 2014.
• Codify the exceptions to the 1913 cut-off date for the descendants
of the Khoi and San, and identify affected heritage sites and
historical landmarks.
RURAL DEVELOPMENT
• Basic services such as electricity, water, houses, schools, clinics
and sports facilities have been extended to more people in rural
areas.
• The Comprehensive Rural Development Plan has improved the
livelihoods of rural communities across the country.
• Nearly 5,000 farms, comprising 4.2 million hectares, have been
transferred to black people, benefiting over 200,000 families.
• Nearly 80,000 land claims, totaling 3.4 million hectares, have
been settled and 1.8 million people have benefited.
In the last 5 years
• We have improved the issuing of fishing licence quotas to local
fishing communities.
• We have provided support to emerging farmers.
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HUMAN
SETTLEMENTS
BASIC SERVICES
AND
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Ensure all South Africans live in decent conditions in suitable
human settlements
• Integrated human settlement residential programmes will be
implemented to provide all inclusive amenities and public transport,
and overcome apartheid spatial development.
• We will provide one million housing opportunities for qualifying
households in urban and rural settlements over the next five years.
• The provision of basic services and infrastructure in all existing
informal settlements will be accelerated.
• The supply of affordable housing will be increased through
mobilisation of housing allowances for teachers, nurses, police
officers, office workers and many others in the gap market.
• We will eliminate the backlog of title deeds. New home-owners in
the subsidy market will be issued with title deeds on occupation.
• We will work with financial institutions, private sector organisations,
co-operatives and social partners to increase the provision of capital
for housing. This will include the establishment of a mortgage
insurance scheme.
• The number of housing units in better-located mixed income projects
will be increased. Especially in social, co-operative and rental
housing, to revitalise inner cities, mining towns and developing
cities.
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HUMAN SETTLEMENTS AND BASIC SERVICES
• Over 3.3 million free houses have been built, benefiting more than
16 million people.
• Half a million public rental houses have been transferred to their
occupants.
• The social housing programme has delivered 30,000 well-located
and well-managed rental housing units to low and moderate
income households.
• About 12 million households have access to electricity - 7 million
more than in 1994.
• Around 92% of South Africans have access to potable water,
compared to 60% in 1996.
In the last 5 years
• Around 850,000 free houses were built.
• Nearly 500 informal settlements have been replaced with quality
housing and basic services.
• Catalytic projects, such as integrated residential programmes,
will be used to direct investment and overcome apartheid spatial
geography.
• Integrated public transport systems will be promoted in the new
human settlements, including provision of passenger rail and buses.
• An additional 1.6 million homes will be connected to the electricity
grid over the next five years.
• We will continue to work towards universal access to running water
by providing access to those who still don’t have it.
• We will accelerate the roll-out of basic sanitation infrastructure in
rural areas and informal settlements.
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IMPROVING AND
EDUCATION
EXPANDING
AND TRAINING
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Education and training must be available to all. Focusing on
young children, students and adults. This requires, among other
things, a comprehensive and integrated post-school education
and training system.
The ANC is committed to the progressive realisation of free
education at all levels. We have made progress in achieving
universal access to quality basic education, but we need to
work harder to ensure introduction of free education in higher
education and training.
The key commitments laid out for the next five years are making
early childhood development a priority; eradicating illiteracy;
improving the quality of teaching and learning in schools; and
building capacity in higher education and training.
Make early childhood development a top priority
• We will work towards realising two years of compulsory pre-school
education and strive for fuller integration of Grade R educators in
the post and remuneration structure.
• About one million poor families will benefit from access to an
early learning stimulation programme through community-based
initiatives and home visits to prepare children before the foundation
phase of formal schooling (Grades R, 1 to 3).
• We will strengthen coordination between departments responsible
for early childhood development, and the non-profit and private
sectors.
Improve the quality of teaching and learning in our schools
• We will provide interventions, through curriculum and assessment
policies, to improve performance in our schools.
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• We will maintain the upward trend in the mathematics pass rate
while improving the quality of those passes.
• A phased-approach to the introduction of compulsory African
languages in schools will be adopted. We will continue to promote
sports, arts, heritage and culture at our schools.
• Teacher development will receive ongoing attention. Teacher
colleges linked to universities will be re-opened and in-service
teacher training intensified. Bursary programmes will also be used
to improve teacher development. We will investigate appropriate
working conditions for public servants - teachers in particular.
• We will continue our campaign to ensure good discipline and
accountability in our schools: that teachers are on time, in class and
teaching; and that learners are in class and learning. Principals will
be supported to maintain discipline and high standards of conduct.
• School safety programmes will be implemented to ensure learner
well-being. Violent incidents, including abuse of learners, within
and outside schools will not be tolerated.
• We will introduce mobile devices like tablets into schools to
distribute learning content.
• We aim to ensure that every child has a textbook for every learning
area, and that the retrieval of textbooks is improved.
Eradicate illiteracy
• We will continue to work towards the eradication of illiteracy
through the Kha Ri Gude mass literacy programme.
Expand and improve the capacity of the higher education and
training system
• We will open two new universities to students in the next five years.
• We will enrol more than one million students in FET colleges in
2014, and enrol an additional 500,000 students in the next five
years.
• We will continue to improve governance and administration of FET
colleges and adopt quality assurance measures, especially relating
to curricula and training.
• We will develop FET college-based mathematics and science
foundation programmes to assist students to take up careers in
engineering, science and technology.
• We will develop a national network of Community Education and
Training Centres from existing adult education and training centres.
• Opportunities for workplace-based training and experience will be
created through greater partnership between the sector education
and training authorities (SETAs), workplaces, and education and
training institutions.
• As part of the campaign to turn every workplace into a training
space, we will coordinate government efforts to significantly
increase internships and placements in the public and private
sectors.
• We will advance reforms in skills development to ensure employers
and labour - in partnership with learning institutions - carry out more
technical and artisanal training.
• Skills legislation will be amended to ensure compliance by all state
entities in the payment of skills levies.
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• Working together with universities and FET colleges, we will
intensify efforts to support the needs of poor students, including
(and through) adequate student funding and preparation for study.
• We will implement community service for all graduates.
Expand school, college and university infrastructure
• We will use the latest technology and building materials to ensure
schools and other education infrastructure are built faster and are
better suited to the differing climatic (and other) conditions across
the country. This will promote conducive learning environments.
• We will build 1,000 new schools to expand access to education
and respond to the challenges of rural schooling and urban
population growth.
• The building of the two new universities in Mpumalanga and
Northern Cape will be completed, and a third dedicated health
sciences university will be built.
• Twelve new campuses for FET colleges will be completed in 2014.
• An additional 50,000 student accommodation places will be
provided through partnerships with the private sector and direct
state initiatives.
EDUCATION AND TRAINING
• Pre-school education has expanded. The number of Grade R
learners increased from 300,000 in 2003, to 780,000 in 2013.
• South Africa has achieved gender parity in school enrolment and
exceeded the relevant Millennium Development Goal.
• The number of learners who passed matric increased from 50%
before 1994, to around 78% today.
• More than 56,000 classrooms have been built.
• University student enrolment more than doubled from 495,000
students in 1994, to 953,000 students in 2012.
• The proportion of university students who were African increased
from 49% in 1995, to more than 66% in 2010.
• More than 1.4 million students have benefited from the National
Student Financial Aid Scheme.
In the last 5 years
• Over seven million learners are in no fee schools, up from five
million in 2009.
• Over nine million learners in 20,000 schools receive daily meals.
• Further Education and Training (FET) college student head-count
enrolments doubled from 345,566 in 2010, to 657,690 students
in 2012.
• Teacher education has been expanded, with the number of new
teacher graduates doubling from 6,000 in 2009, to 13,000 in
2012.
• The Kha Ri Gude Mass Literacy Campaign has reached 3.7 million
adults within five years, exceeding the Millennium Development
Goal of halving illiteracy rates by 2015.
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HEALTH AND
SECURITY
SOCIAL
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QUALITY HEALTH CARE FOR ALL
Our flagship programme in the next five years and beyond is
the National Health Insurance (NHI), which will help us move
forward to universal health coverage. The NHI will be publicly
funded and publicly administered and will ensure that South
Africans have access to comprehensive quality health services
irrespective of their socio-economic status.
The NHI will be implemented in phases. Some work has
already taken place over the past five years, mainly through
the expansion of primary health care services and further
improvements in the quality of public health services.
Establish a National Health Insurance Fund
• A publicly funded and publicly administered NHI Fund will be
established through legislation to drive the roll-out of the NHI
programme. The NHI funding model will give effect to the three
key principles of the NHI: universal provision of quality health care;
social solidarity through cross-subsidisation; and equity, which
delivers free health care at the point of service.
Further expand free primary health care to benefit communities
• Our strengthened free primary health care will focus on three
levels of care: municipal ward-based health care services linked to
clinics will be provided by a network of community health workers;
school health services will be expanded and school nurses will
provide health promotion and preventative health initiatives; and
an additional team of seven specialists will be employed in each
district and rural region to provide clinical support and guidance to
doctors and nurses and enforce adherence to norms and standards.
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Reduce private health care costs
• The reform of private health care will be accelerated to significantly
bring down the cost of private health care.
Improve the quality of public health services
• Through adherence to the Patient’s Charter we will improve the
quality of public health services.
• We will introduce a patient-centred approach in the delivery of
health services by aggressively reducing the time patients have to
wait to receive services and medication.
• In the next five years, patients on chronic medication will receive
their medication at selected collection points such as community
pharmacies and private medical doctors. The first 500,000
people will benefit from the roll-out of this programme in 2014,
starting initially in the NHI pilot districts. Another one million people
will be added to the programme each year as it is extended to
other districts.
• To ensure the uninterrupted supply of medicines and other goods
needed in hospitals for patient care, hospital CEOs will be
empowered to order directly from suppliers.
• Essential support services such as catering, cleaning, laundry and
security will be insourced over the next five years.
• Under the NHI, 213 new clinics and community health centres and
43 hospitals will be constructed. Over 870 health facilities in all
11 NHI pilot districts will undergo major and minor refurbishments.
This will later be extended to all other districts.
Improve human resources for health
• Central hospitals are national assets and, as integral parts of
universities, are primary training platforms for health professionals.
As such, we will ensure their governance, funding and management
becomes a national public sector competency and that they play
their role as part of a seamless referral system.
• We will continue to prioritise revitalisation, equipping and
resourcing of nursing colleges and increase the recruitment of nurse-
trainees.
• We will double the number of doctors trained locally and abroad.
An average of 2,000 doctors a year.
Intensify the fight against HIV/AIDS and TB
• The number of people on anti-retrovirals will be doubled from the
present 2.4 million to 4.6 million by 2016. We will increase four-
fold, to four million, the number of men medically circumcised by
2016. We will encourage every South African to get tested at least
once a year.
• In addition to the existing TB programmes, screening and treatment
shall be intensified for vulnerable groups. This includes 150,000
inmates in all 242 correctional services facilities; 500,000 mine
workers and an estimated 600,000 people living in mining
communities.
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Intensify our fight to reduce maternal and child mortality and
promote women’s health
• In the next five years the ANC will introduce measures to
reduce unwanted pregnancies with a special focus on teenage
pregnancies. This will encourage child survival, improve the lives of
young women and markedly reduce maternal mortality. This will be
done through education, information and the launch of a massive
contraception and family planning programme.
• To reduce the incidence of cervical cancer of the uterus in women,
as from 2014 all girl-children in Grade 4 in government schools
will be vaccinated against the human papilloma virus which causes
cervical cancer.
• We will implement the African Union-inspired Campaign on
Accelerated Reduction of Maternal and Child Mortality in Africa
(CARMMA). This will place mother and children, over five years,
at the centre of our health care programmes. Especially at primarily
health care level.
Promote healthy lifestyles
• We will promote healthy lifestyles to reduce risk factors associated
with non-communicable diseases, such as smoking, harmful use of
alcohol, poor diet and lack of exercise.
• We will encourage all South Africans to screen annually for
diabetes, high blood pressure, eyesight problems, cholesterol and
cancers.
HEALTH
• The proportion of South Africans visiting public clinics and hospitals
increased from 57% in 2002, to 70% in 2012.
• Through the ‘prevention of mother to child transmission’ programme,
the number of babies born HIV positive was reduced by 66% from
24,000 in 2008, to 8,200 in 2011.
In the last 5 years
• More South Africans are living longer, with average life expectancy
increasing to 60 years in 2012.
• Over 20 million South Africans have tested for HIV and 2.4 million
South Africans receive anti-retroviral treatment.
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COMPREHENSIVE SOCIAL SECURITY
It is estimated that South Africa needs close to 55,000 social
service professionals to respond to the country’s social welfare
needs. Currently, there are only 15,000 qualified social workers.
• Increase the supply of social service professionals, specifically
social workers, auxiliary or assistant social workers, community
development workers, and child and youth care workers.
• Work towards the introduction of mandatory cover for retirement,
disability and survivor benefits.
• Continue to roll out existing social grants to those who qualify.
• Urgently finalise policy discussions on proposals for a comprehensive
social protection policy that ensures that no needy South African
falls through the social security net.
SOCIAL SECURITY
• The number of people receiving social grants increased from
3 million to 16 million, benefiting the elderly, children, and veterans.
• Child support grants have been extended to include all eligible
children up to age 18.
• The Unemployment Insurance Fund has been extended to benefit
most workers (including domestic workers) and the benefit payment
period has been increased from 6 months to 12 months.
In the last 5 years
• Military veterans now have access to social benefits.
• Programmes have been introduced, in partnership with communities,
to further strengthen government’s fight against drugs.
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FIGHTING
CORRUPTION
CRIME AND
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The ANC is committed to a corruption-free society, ethical
behaviour across society and a government that is accountable
to the people. Corruption is a broad societal problem prevalent
in both the public and private sectors, requiring the commitment
of all actors in society to eradicate it.
The conduct of public servants in business must be regulated.
Our political representatives must strive to maintain ethical
conduct and must realise the effect of their behaviour on the
integrity of the political office they hold.
To ensure all South Africans are safer and feel safer, we will
continue to work hard to ensure a rapid downward trend in the
overall levels of crime, and strengthen management and control
of our borders.
Intensify the fight against corruption
• We will pursue action against companies involved in bid rigging,
price fixing and corruption in past and current infrastructure build
programmes, using the competition authorities, taking up civil
claims, and calling on the National Prosecuting Authority to
investigate criminally-liable behaviour.
• Public servants and public representatives will be prohibited from
doing business with the state. Further measures will be developed to
identify and prosecute corrupt actions by public servants and others.
• A centralised process, with stakeholder representation, will
be established to adjudicate on major tenders in all spheres of
government. It will work with the chief procurement officer, whose
main functions will be to check on pricing and cost effectiveness,
and ensure transparency, adherence to procedures and fairness.
• All corrupt officials will be made individually liable for all losses
incurred as a result of their corrupt actions.
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FIGHTING CRIME AND CORRUPTION
• The ANC has put in place strict laws to tackle corruption and
safeguard public funds.
• State institutions like the Public Protector, the Special Investigating
Unit and the Hawks have been established to combat corruption.
• Legal Aid South Africa was established to provide legal aid services
to the poor and indigent in both criminal and civil matters.
In the last 5 years
• Overall levels of crime, especially violent crime, have declined from
3,924 incidents per 100,000 people in 2009, to about 3,508
incidents per 100,000 people in 2012.
• The number of contact crimes have been reduced from 1,407 per
100,000 people in 2009, to 1,233 per 100,000 people in
2012.
• Car-jacking and robbery at residential premises have also shown a
downward trend in general.
• Since 2009, freezing orders totalling R1.07 billion have been
obtained, while 302 asset forfeiture cases involving a total of R118
million have been completed.
• Any ANC member or ANC public representative found guilty by
a court of law will be expected to step down from any leadership
position in the ANC, government and society. Where this has not
happened, the ANC will take firm action in line with the provisions
of the ANC constitution.
• The capacity of corruption fighting agencies will be further
enhanced and public education will be part of the mandate of the
anti-corruption agencies.
STEP UP THE FIGHT AGAINST CRIME
• We will work to further reduce levels of crime, specifically contact
crimes like murder, rape and grievous bodily harm. This will involve
intelligence support and coordination, more police visibility and
focus on hot-spot areas, and addressing the proliferation of firearms.
• To further improve the criminal justice system, the capacity of the
police, prosecutors, legal aid and courts will be improved.
• In partnership with communities, which will include the formation of
street committees and community safety forums, we will strengthen
the anti-crime awareness campaign and introduce stronger
legislation to combat substance abuse.
• We will continue to prioritise incidents of domestic violence and
crimes against women and children by further strengthening the Sexual
Offences and Community Affairs Unit and pursuing a multi-disciplinary
approach in our fight against violence against women and children.
• We will accelerate the integration of the criminal justice system,
including access to justice. We will continue to improve the detection
of crime and efficiency in the courts with regard to the finalisation of
ready cases and the time it takes to bring a case to court.
• We will continue to ensure control and regulation of the private
security industry.
• Our border controls will be strengthened to improve security
and manage immigration effectively, while promoting regional
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A BETTER
A BETTER WORLD
AFRICA AND
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We remain committed to building a better Africa and a better
world. South Africa is committed to multilateral relations and
cooperation, from matters related to world security to issues of
climate change and solidarity with progressive movements and
countries.
We are making progress in finding African solutions for African
problems.
• Continue to support the African Court on Human and People’s
Rights.
• Help strengthen African Union (AU) institutions so the AU continues
to serve the interests of Africa’s people and promotes democracy
and good governance.
• Contribute to the African agenda for industrialisation and regional
integration for sustainable and inclusive development.
• Promote reform of the UN Security Council so that it becomes
more accountable, democratic and representative. We will work
for reform of global governance institutions so that their decisions
promote equity and fairness.
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A BETTER AFRICA AND WORLD
• We have helped strengthen the African Union institutions.
• Our defence force has been involved in peace keeping and
humanitarian operations in various African countries.
• The number of African countries in which South African companies
are invested has grown from 10 in 1994 to over 40.
• We have advanced the African agenda for peace and development
while contributing to South-South cooperation.
In the last 5 years
• We have been involved in the implementation of NEPAD and the
African Peer Review Mechanism, and built a security architecture
that can respond rapidly to crises.
• We joined the BRICS community of nations.
• Together with seven other countries, we have initiated the open
government partnership to promote accountability, transparency
and good governance throughout the world.
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SOCIAL
AND NATION
COHESION
BUILDING
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The implementation of our manifesto requires that we all
contribute. It builds on our collective identity and national pride
as South Africans and the fact that we have the capacity to act in
social solidarity with one another and advance the values of our
constitutional democracy.
A nation united in diversity and common purpose can move the
country forward.
• Ensure government invests in the cultural and creative industries,
particularly in film, music, arts and craft, books and publishing.
• Honour and celebrate our collective heritage by promoting our
diverse cultural identities.
• Promote our new museums and monuments and preserve existing
ones to depict and preserve the heritage of our people.
• Promote a Liberation Heritage Route that honours the heroes and
heroines of the struggle.
• Promote the teaching of South African history and our national
anthem in schools, and install South African flags in all public
schools.
• Promote deeds of social solidarity, reflected in many ways in the
actions of our people as individuals, communities and organisations.
• Work towards a community art centre and a library in every
municipal ward.
• Promote the values of the Constitution we approach the 20th
anniversary of its adoption in 2016.
• Strengthen participatory democracy in workplaces, schools,
hospitals and clinics, and in our communities.
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SOCIAL COHESION AND NATION BUILDING
• We adopted a democratic constitution that is regarded as one of
the most progressive in the world.
• We held successive free and fair democratic elections.
• We pursued reconciliation through the Truth and Reconciliation
Commission.
• We adopted a new national anthem and national symbols such as
the coat of arms.
• Radio broadcasting in all official languages reaches 88% of
the population and 133 community radio stations have been
established.
• Approximately three quarters of households have access to
television.
• The dignity of traditional leaders and their cultural rights have been
restored.
In the last 5 years
• We have exhumed and reburied fallen heroes and heroines of our
struggle and brought closure to their families.
• Contribute to the South African economy through promotion of
domestic investment in our productive domestic economy, and
adopt a ‘Proudly South African’ attitude.
• Promote a culture of dialogue, accords and commitments across
society as part of our national effort to build a social compact for
growth and development.
• Ensure public representatives are constantly in touch with the people
and listen to people’s concerns and needs. Where necessary, we
will create more forums for direct interaction with communities and
various sectors of our society.
• Build effective communication with the people. We will improve
our communications tools, including introducing new ones, to
ensure that indeed we have an informed, mobilised and active
citizenry.
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OUR
PLEDGE
This manifesto is our pledge to move South Africa forward,
together.
It sets out carefully considered and bold commitments that can be
funded over the next five years and beyond.
All levels of government will implement this manifesto, and we will
ensure that it is effectively monitored.
While the ANC government will take a lead, each and every one
of us – communities, workers, private sector and civil society – has
a role to play in the implementation of the manifesto.
As the ANC, we further pledge to:
• Remain true to our values of courage, service, self-sacrifice,
human solidarity, integrity, humility, honesty, hard-work, self-
discipline and mutual respect.
• Work with our allies and the people to move South African
forward through the commitments we have set out in this
manifesto.
• Strengthen the bonds of trust and solidarity with our people
where these have been broken and continue to listen to and
effectively communicate with our people.
• Act against ANC members and ANC elected representatives
found guilty in a court of law.
VOTE ANC
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