The manifesto can be summarised in this way:
“Together for change through a government that offers opportunities for all, together for jobs through an economy that grows at 8% to create 6 million real jobs“
A DA government will:
- Save R 30 billion per year by cutting corruption and firing corrupt officials
- Speed up the delivery of housing and basic services through clean and efficient government
- Introduce a constituency-based electoral system to make MPs more accountable
- Make communities safer by putting 250 000 properly trained police officers on the streets
- Fight gangsterism and drugs by re-instating the narcotics bureau and building more rehabilitation centres
- Work with the private sector to provide quality, affordable health care for all
- Ensure that the social grants system is a means to lift people out of poverty
- Dedicate an extra R 10 billion to speed up land reform and provide training and support for emerging farmers
- Provide quality education by training 15 000 more teachers per year and giving every child a textbook for every subject
- Increase the NSFAS budget to R 16 billion so that no student is denied further education because they cannot afford it.
- Create 1 million internships to give work experience to young job-seekers
- Provide 7 million EPWP opportunities to alleviate poverty and provide a step-up for job seekers
- Make South Africa a nation of entrepreneurs by cutting red tape and providing more support and training for small business
- Improve black economic empowerment so that it rewards companies that invest in their workers and create jobs
- Break up inefficient state monopolies, and distribute shares to ordinary citizens, to increase competition and bring down prices
- Invest at least 10% of GDP in the roads, ports, railways, airways, water and communication infrastructure that the economy needs to grow
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