By Thapelo Molefe
South Africa cannot afford to drift through another decade of slow growth and worsening inequality, Minister in the Presidency for Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation, Maropene Ramokgopa, warned on Tuesday.
While outlining the national agenda anchored in the Medium-Term Development Plan (MTDP) at the Bureau for Economic Research’s (BER) annual conference in Sandton, Ramokgopa said the country was at an inflection point where practical reforms and shared responsibility must replace “cycles of blame and inaction”.
The government was finalising the MTDP, a strategic framework that would guide South Africa’s development priorities through to 2030. Designed as a focused implementation arm of the broader National Development Plan, the plan would focus on key areas critical to unlocking economic growth and improving state performance in energy, logistics, crime and public sector capacity.
Ramokgopa described the plan as a targeted intervention intended to tackle structural barriers that continued to entrench poverty
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