Johnathan Paoli
Below is the summary of the ANC Manifesto delivered by President Cyril Ramaphosa at the Moses Mabhida Stadium in Durban on Saturday.
- Unemployment:
Create and sustain 2.5 million work opportunities delivering public goods and services in communities, including work done through the Presidential Employment Stimulus, funding to civil society through non-profit companies and organisations to provide work opportunities, expand and institutionalise the National Youth Service in partnership with the SANDF, and work opportunities for unemployed graduates.
- Corruption:
Establishing the Investigating Directorate as a permanent entity within the NPA with investigating powers, ensuring greater accountability and preventing corruption through rigorous lifestyle audits and improved vetting procedures, and building a social compact against corruption with law enforcement and citizens.
- Housing:
Increasing land availability near economic centres for youth, military veterans and seniors and establishing a Human Settlement Bank for affordable home financing.
- Water:
Improving access to clean water and increasing bulk water infrastructure, expanding sanitation access through alternative technologies, addressing challenges with wastewater treatment plants, and ensuring safe drinking water and preventing pollution of water sources.
Complete in the coming five years, major dams and water schemes to ensure sustainable access to water for a growing population and separate water services authorities from water service providers as part of efficiency improvements.
(uMzimvubu and uMkhomazi dams, raising of the Clanwilliam and Tzaneen dam walls, the Loskop, Pilanesberg, Mandlakazi, Giyane and Tsomo water schemes, and the Olifants Management Model Water Scheme).
- Youth:
Address the crisis of young people not in employment, education or training through increased efforts to reduce the number of learners who do not finish school and providing second chance opportunities to pass matric through community and TVET colleges; prioritise young people in public and other work programmes; expand and institutionalise the National Youth Service in partnership with the SANDF, Expanding to provide skills and meet basic needs in communities, targeting intake of 100,000 young men and women.
Working together with young people and other key stakeholders to engage and overcome some of the leading challenges faced by the youth of today, , implementing a national youth plan to tackle drug and substance abuse, and strengthening youth health services.
- Electricity:
Prioritise investment in expanding the transmission grid so that more energy, including from renewable sources, could be supplied by developing gas, nuclear and hydro power projects for increased energy generation.
Facilitating the installation of solar water geysers in working class and poor households to support job creation and local manufacturing and reduce energy bills by promoting cheaper or subsidised solar power
- Health:
Expanding the Ideal Clinic programme to improve quality of care and strengthen financial management and supply chain management in public health institutions and implement the National Health Insurance (NHI) to make quality health care affordable and available to all.
- Crime:
Embracing a comprehensive approach to fighting crime through the Integrated Violence and Crime Prevention Strategy, implementing the National Strategic Plan on GBV and Femicide, and completing the overhaul of the immigration policy and systems including the Citizenship Act, Refugees Act and Immigration Act towards a single law.
- Education:
Ensuring universal access to quality early child development by 2030, expanding skills development programmes in emerging fields like data analytics and artificial intelligence, strengthening the post-school education and training sector, and expanding vocational and technical training.
Increasing enrollment and graduation of students in universities, TVET colleges and community education and training colleges, particularly for African and coloured students and students with disabilities.
- Diplomacy:
Strengthening the implementation of the African Union’s flagship African Continental Free Trade Area, promoting greater peace, security, democracy and socio-economic development in SADC, and increasing the voice of developing countries in the UN and other multilateral institutions and advancing solidarity with the peoples of Palestine, Western Sahara, Cuba and others.
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