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AI analysis assigns a numerical score from -2 to +2 based on the party's stance relative to state control vs. free market, or opposition vs. support for a specific policy reform.
Policy Commitments
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The ACDP strongly advocates for strict meritocracy and independent oversight in governance, explicitly opposing cadre deployment and race-based policies. They propose establishing a specialised anti-corruption entity and ensuring that public officials guilty of corruption are speedily prosecuted and held personally liable.
Key Proposals
- Establish an independent specialised anti-corruption entity with prosecutor-driven investigations and secure tenure of office.
- Ensure the Auditor-General, Public Protector, SAPS, Hawks, SIU, AFU, and NPA are properly staffed, resourced, and protected from political interference.
- End cadre deployment and race-based policies that have caused inflated prices and resulted in a “tender-preneur” economy.
- Ensure that public officials who are guilty of corrupt conduct are speedily prosecuted and held personally liable to refund the state.
The ACDP supports quality basic education, emphasizing parental rights and ensuring Early Childhood Development (ECD) facilities are available in all areas. They advocate for a world-class education system, repealing controversial education laws, and focusing on skills development and learner safety.
Key Proposals
- Ensure Grade R and Early Childhood Development facilities are available in all areas.
- Adopt a world-class education system such as the Cambridge system.
- Repeal the Basic Education Laws Amendment Bill (BELA) provisions infringing on parental rights and School Governing Bodies.
- Prioritise learners' health and safety in terms of school infrastructure, nutrition, transport, and banning gangsterism, firearms, and drugs in schools.
The ACDP aims to fix energy challenges by improving Eskom's performance and supporting increased renewable energy generation through Independent Power Producers (IPPs). They also stress the importance of encouraging a culture of payment for electricity, particularly in municipalities, to stabilize public finances and ensure reliable energy supply.
Key Proposals
- Support increased renewable energy (including wind and solar power) with independent power producers playing a far greater role.
- Encourage a culture of payment for electricity, particularly in municipalities that owe Eskom billions of rands.
- Make far greater use of original equipment manufacturers to oversee maintenance duties at power stations.
- Exempt the energy sector from preferential procurement provisions and localisation to exclude middlemen and reduce corruption.
The ACDP prioritizes property rights and aims to maximize the use of state land for residential and agricultural needs. They propose eradicating the social housing backlog through community-owned self-help schemes and ensuring transparency and quality control in housing developments and related infrastructure.
Key Proposals
- Award title deeds to qualifying residents of municipal-owned housing units.
- Maximise the use of state land that is not being fully utilised by ensuring it is allocated for the residential and agricultural needs of communities.
- Eradicate the social housing backlog by promoting the development of affordable and inclusionary housing through community-owned self-help schemes.
- Ensure newly built homes are properly inspected and contractors are held accountable for poor workmanship.
The ACDP advocates for strict border control and increased police visibility to protect communities. They also emphasize ensuring fair and equal access to markets for local business owners, particularly in competition with foreign-owned businesses, implying stricter regulation or preference for local enterprises.
Key Proposals
- Protect our communities and borders by increasing police visibility and conducting more roadblocks.
- Strengthen the South African National Defence Force to protect our borders and assist the police in maintaining law and order.
- Ensure that there is fair and equal access to markets for local owners who compete against increasing numbers of foreign-owned businesses.
The ACDP aims to alleviate poverty by increasing the number of social workers and community development workers. This focus on expanding welfare services implies a commitment to providing relief and support to vulnerable communities, which would include expanding indigent registers and related benefits at a local level.
Key Proposals
- Increase the number of social workers and community development workers to respond to the need for better welfare services in order to alleviate poverty.
The ACDP adopts a tough-on-crime approach, emphasizing increased police visibility, roadblocks, and active community involvement in safety initiatives. They propose strengthening local efforts against gangsterism and drug abuse, supporting neighbourhood watches, and ensuring robust prosecution of criminals.
Key Proposals
- Increase police visibility and conduct more roadblocks to protect communities and borders.
- Support neighbourhood watches, trauma services, and safe havens for victims of gender-based violence.
- Actively assist communities in their struggle against gangsterism and drug and alcohol abuse by arresting and prosecuting drug dealers, increasing sniffer dog units, and shutting down drug dens.
- Strengthen the South African National Defence Force to protect borders and assist police in maintaining law and order when called upon.
The ACDP strongly opposes the National Health Insurance (NHI) legislation, advocating instead for a national dialogue on universal healthcare that includes both public and private spheres. They propose improving public health facilities, increasing healthcare staff, ensuring medicine stock, and expanding 24/7 health care facilities in vulnerable communities.
Key Proposals
- Repeal government's proposed expropriation of private health care through the National Health Insurance legislation and launch a national dialogue on access to universal health care.
- Improve public health facilities and services, reducing waiting times by increasing doctors, nurses, administrative staff, and ensuring sufficient stock of medicines.
- Increase the number of 24/7 health care facilities close to vulnerable communities.
- Increase the number of community-based primary health care workers to improve tracing, early screening, and treatment of various diseases.
The ACDP supports an open market economy with a social conscience, focusing on creating an enabling environment for job creation and poverty alleviation. They propose supporting small businesses, reducing red tape, and ensuring fair market access for local owners, citing their experience in the Nelson Mandela Bay Metro.
Key Proposals
- Support small businesses by fostering entrepreneurship through mentoring, start-up funding, skills development, and training.
- Ensure ease of starting business by reducing unnecessary red tape and having dedicated one-stop business registration centres.
- Ensure fair and equal access to markets for local owners who compete against increasing numbers of foreign-owned businesses.
- Employ more health inspectors to monitor small businesses trading in food, as demonstrated in the Nelson Mandela Bay Metro government.
The ACDP strongly defends private property rights, advocating for just and equitable compensation for any expropriated land. They oppose policies that seize land from experienced farmers and instead propose allocating unutilized state land for residential and agricultural needs, while facilitating land access for the rural poor through government assets and willing sellers.
Key Proposals
- Protect all property rights and ensure that just and equitable compensation is paid for any expropriated land.
- Ensure that state land that is not being fully utilised is allocated for the residential and agricultural needs of communities.
- Provide the rural poor, labour tenants and entrepreneurial farm workers an opportunity to access land through a system facilitated by government's own land assets and that of other willing land owners.
- Adopt measures to grow the agricultural sector and expand the number of successful commercial farmers of all races, not taking land or water from experienced farmers.
The ACDP's approach to public transport involves rehabilitating existing state-owned rail infrastructure (Transnet and PRASA) while significantly increasing private sector involvement. They aim to ensure safe, affordable, and reliable transport for commuters by expediting modernization and security programs, alongside public-private partnerships.
Key Proposals
- Rehabilitate the rail network to move freight from roads back to rail.
- Increase private sector involvement by granting more third-party access to the rail network.
- Increase public-private joint ventures with Transnet Port Terminals to ensure ports are run more efficiently.
- Expedite the passenger PRASA rebuild and recovery, modernisation, and safety and security programmes to provide safe, affordable, and reliable transport.
The ACDP's national ideology is rooted in Christian principles, advocating for 'Godly governance,' family values, and moral regeneration. They promote a constitutional state over a secular one, support a free market economy with a social conscience, and advocate for a federal system, explicitly opposing 'liberal and humanistic policies.' They also strongly support re-establishing full diplomatic relations with Israel.
Key Proposals
- Elect God-fearing, competent servant leaders of integrity committed to restoring trust through Godly governance.
- Accelerate moral regeneration by amending liberal and humanistic policies and legislation that have systematically undermined family values.
- Re-establish full diplomatic relations with Israel and move the South African Embassy to Jerusalem.
- Stand for Christian principles, freedom of religion, a free market economy with a social conscience, family values, community empowerment and human rights in a federal system.
The ACDP advocates for improved municipal provision of basic services, focusing on eradicating informal settlements by providing permanent solutions with bulk water and sanitation infrastructure. They also emphasize holding authorities accountable for poor service delivery and employing private sector expertise to address crises.
Key Proposals
- Eradicate informal settlements by prioritising permanent solutions over temporary, replacing communal toilets with bulk water and sanitation infrastructure.
- Ensure all schools have flushing toilets to replace pit-toilets.
- Hold underperforming national, provincial, and local authorities, as well as water boards, accountable for poor service delivery.
- Employ private sector engineering and other necessary skills to remedy water and sanitation crises.