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Policy Commitments
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The ANC commits to strengthening local government, improving service delivery, and fighting corruption through enhanced accountability and merit-based appointments. It aims to build a professional public service based on Batho Pele principles, reduce reliance on outsourcing, and implement rigorous monitoring and evaluation to hold public representatives and deployees accountable, including through recall for non-performance.
Key Proposals
- Ensure local government delivers.
- Improve governance and the public service, work with communities to deliver quality and reliable basic services, eradicate corruption, and maintain and build new infrastructure.
- Rebuild and improve local government, build a professional and developmental public service based on Batho Pele principles, and strengthen cooperative governance through the District Development Model.
- Ensure that its public representatives and deployees are held accountable for basic services, fill critical vacancies with qualified people, and act against non-performing public representatives, including recall.
- Tackle corruption, improve public accountability, strengthen investigation and prosecution capabilities and ensure severe consequences for corrupt activities.
- Strengthen selection criteria for public representatives candidates, prioritising skills, educational knowledge, experience and integrity.
- Reduce the reliance on outsourcing services, which has weakened the state's capability.
- Implement long-term planning through the District Development Model.
- Increase revenue collection and resource mobilisation, and review the sustainability and funding of local government.
- Regular monitoring and evaluation to track progress and implement corrective interventions, holding government and ANC deployees accountable.
The ANC strongly supports universal access to quality education, from early childhood development (ECD) to post-school training, with an emphasis on state-funded and subsidized provisions. It aims to expand vocational and technical training, address youth unemployment through skills development, and foster a culture of reading, numeracy, and technological skills.
Key Proposals
- Improve education and skills.
- Ensure universal access to quality early child development by 2030.
- Foster a culture of reading, numeracy and technological skills.
- Expand skills development programmes in emerging fields like data analytics and artificial intelligence.
- Strengthen the post-school education and training sector through better coordination, responsiveness to labour market needs and improved quality, throughput and access.
- Expand vocational and technical training in schools and post school institutions and build additional TVET and community colleges.
- Provide second chance opportunities to pass matric through community and TVET colleges.
- Increase enrolment and graduation of students in universities, TVET colleges and community education and training colleges, particularly for African and coloured students and students with disabilities.
The ANC aims to end load shedding and ensure energy security through a diversified approach, including renewable sources, gas, nuclear, and hydro power. It supports municipal provision of subsidized electricity and promotes local solar power initiatives, while also focusing on expanding the national transmission grid to integrate various energy sources.
Key Proposals
- Promote cheaper and subsidised solar power.
- Ensure basic services are affordable by maintaining and expanding subsidised basic services like water, houses and electricity for the poor.
- Fix the current constraint in energy, transport and logistics as important network industries and strategic national assets that are critical to industrialisation, growth and development.
- Prioritise investment in expanding the transmission grid so that more energy, including from renewable sources, can be supplied.
- Install solar water geysers in working class and poor households to support job creation and local manufacturing.
- Develop gas, nuclear and hydro power projects for increased energy generation.
The ANC strongly prioritizes state-led provision of subsidized housing and human settlements for vulnerable groups and the poor. It commits to upgrading informal settlements, providing basic services, and managing rapid urbanization through a sustainable model of compact, connected cities and towns, including increasing land availability near economic centers.
Key Proposals
- Build more houses and provide basic services to all.
- Maintain and expand subsidised basic services like houses for the poor and indigent policies in municipalities.
- Develop more subsidised human settlements.
- Continue building subsidised housing for vulnerable groups.
- Increase land availability near economic centres for youth, military veterans and seniors.
- Establish a Human Settlement Bank for affordable financing.
- Upgrade informal settlements and provide basic services.
- Manage rapid urbanisation through a sustainable model of compact, connected cities and towns, urban and rural areas, including the development of new cities and towns.
The ANC supports a comprehensive overhaul of the immigration system to address irregular and illegal migration, regulate foreign worker employment to prioritize South African job-seekers, and prevent exploitation of undocumented persons. It aims to simplify visa applications, modernize systems to prevent fraud, and ensure regional integration policies cover the movement of goods and people while resolving undocumented immigration issues.
Key Proposals
- Keeping our homes and streets safe, protect our borders.
- Overhaul the immigration system in line with the Draft White Paper on Citizenship, Immigration and Refugee Protection to deal with the issue of irregular and illegal migration.
- Simplify visa application procedures, introduce a unified citizen, refugee and migration law.
- Locate refugee and asylum centres close to border post.
- Regulate employment of foreign workers in line with the National Labour Migration Policy, to give preference to South African job-seekers and act against employment and exploitation of undocumented persons.
- Use technology to modernise systems to prevent fraud and bogus documents.
- Ensure that our policies on regional integration and cooperation cover the movement of goods and people and resolve the issue of undocumented immigration, addressing its root causes.
The ANC strongly supports expanding social welfare through a comprehensive social security system, including the progressive implementation of a basic income support grant and protecting existing social grants. It emphasizes maintaining and expanding subsidized basic services for the poor and indigent in municipalities to reduce the cost of living and combat poverty.
Key Proposals
- Strengthen comprehensive social security to reduce poverty, vulnerability, social exclusion and inequality through social assistance.
- Prevent vulnerability and destitution as a result of the loss of income through social insurance for workers.
- Progressively implement a basic income support grant by extending and improving the value and coverage of the SRD grant for the unemployed.
- Ensure the National Minimum Wage increases in line with inflation and ensure compliance.
- Protect the value of social grants for children, the elderly and persons with disability.
- Lower the cost of food through VAT exemption on essential items, support food security through land reform, support for community and home gardens, and act against price fixing.
- Ensure basic services are affordable by maintaining and expanding subsidised basic services like water, houses and electricity for the poor. We will develop more subsidised human settlements.
The ANC strongly supports a tough-on-crime approach to enhance community safety, including modernizing policing, increasing frontline officers, and establishing specialized units. It aims to combat organized crime, gang violence, drug trafficking, and infrastructure theft, while also emphasizing community involvement through Community Policing Forums and a data-driven strategy to target crime hotspots.
Key Proposals
- Intensify the war on crime and make our communities safe, including action against drugs, organised crime, gender-based violence and femicide, infrastructure theft and vandalism, extortion and gangsterism.
- Take a comprehensive approach to fighting crime through the Integrated Violence and Crime Prevention Strategy.
- Modernise policing with more frontline police officers.
- Highlight the critical role of communities in preventing crime and gender-based violence through adequate resourcing of Community Policing Forums.
- Develop capabilities to combat cybercrime, essential infrastructure crimes, illegal firearms, gang violence, crime syndicates, human and drug trafficking, and corruption.
- Provide additional capacity to the Hawks to tackle organised crime.
- Implement a data-driven approach to target violent crime hotspots and direct police resources and personnel to areas with the highest crime rates.
- Tackle priority crimes like gang violence and cash-in-transit heists through specialised police units.
- Implement a national youth plan to tackle drug and substance abuse, embracing prevention and education in schools and communities, counselling, treatment and support.
The ANC strongly supports universal access to quality healthcare, with a decisive commitment to implementing the National Health Insurance (NHI). It aims to strengthen health infrastructure, expand primary care services through the Ideal Clinic programme, and promote healthy lifestyles and preventive healthcare campaigns.
Key Proposals
- Ensure health care for all.
- Strengthen health services and implement the National Health Insurance (NHI) to make quality health care affordable and available to all.
- Promote healthy lifestyles and preventive health care campaigns.
- Move decisively towards implementing the National Health Insurance, strengthening health infrastructure, training personnel and creating a single electronic health record.
- Expand the Ideal Clinic programme to improve quality of care.
- Strengthen financial management and supply chain management in public health institutions.
- Leverage new technologies like telemedicine and artificial intelligence in health care.
The ANC strongly advocates for state-led and municipal-driven local economic development, focusing on job creation through public employment programs and support for small enterprises and cooperatives. It emphasizes including businesses in townships and villages across value chains, leveraging state procurement, and enhancing local industrialization.
Key Proposals
- Create and sustain 2.5 million work opportunities delivering public goods and services in communities through public employment programmes.
- Increase support for small enterprises, entrepreneurs and cooperatives, especially in townships and villages, providing additional one million work opportunities, with set-asides for women, youth and persons with disabilities.
- Engage the private sector on job creation to contribute to national efforts.
- Ensure small businesses, cooperatives and enterprises owned by women, young people and persons with disability especially in townships and villages are included across all value chains through set-asides in the public and private sectors.
- Municipalities will prioritise young people in their programmes through skills development, public works, and community works programmes.
- Establish and resource creative industries and digital hubs in townships and rural areas for digital content production.
- Leverage the state's procurement budget to bolster local businesses producing goods and services while incentivising private enterprises to follow suit.
- Enhance local industrialisation and job creation with specific focus on township and village economic development.
The ANC strongly supports accelerating land reform and redistribution, including the effective use of expropriation legislation, to address asset inequality and improve access to housing. It aims to enhance food security, promote rural and urban development, and collaborate with traditional leadership on local land management.
Key Proposals
- Accelerate land reform and redistribution to reduce asset inequality and protect security of tenure, improve food security and agricultural production, promote rural and urban development and enable greater access to housing.
- Prioritise food security, including through land reform, support for community and home gardens.
- More effectively use provisions in the Constitution and expropriation legislation to accelerate land reform and redistribution.
- Collaborate with traditional leadership on local development and land management.
The ANC supports improving and expanding public transport, with a focus on modernizing commuter rail and increasing affordable transport options. It commits to investing in road infrastructure maintenance, utilizing public employment programs for pothole repair, and strengthening the taxi industry through formalization, support, and subsidization of commuters.
Key Proposals
- Improve public transport and roads.
- Increase affordable rail and other commuter transport.
- Through public employment programmes fix potholes, pave roads and maintain community and rural roads, as well as other road infrastructure.
- Ensure a greater role for the South African National Roads Agency (SANRAL) to assist in road maintenance and extension in towns and rural areas.
- Fastrack the reinstatement of all existing passenger rail lines, provide security for rail infrastructure and passengers, and develop further passenger rail networks, including high-speed rail.
- Strengthen the taxi industry including formalisation, support taxi ownership and businesses in their industry value chains, promote commuter safety and move towards subsidisation of taxi commuters.
The ANC's national ideology is rooted in building a united, non-racial, non-sexist, democratic, and prosperous South Africa, guided by the Freedom Charter and National Development Plan. It strongly advocates for Pan-Africanism, regional integration (AfCFTA, SADC), and a multilateral world order, expressing solidarity with oppressed peoples (e.g., Palestine) and increasing the voice of developing countries (BRICS). It emphasizes state intervention for inclusive economic transformation and social cohesion, without mentioning 'Azania' or radical renaming.
Key Proposals
- Build a united, non-racial, non-sexist, democratic and prosperous society, guided by the Constitution and National Development Plan.
- Promote nation building and social cohesion, protecting and promoting languages and cultural heritage, and opposing discrimination.
- Build a better Africa and World by supporting development and peace efforts on the continent and globally.
- Strengthen the implementation of the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) and promote cross-border infrastructure and value chains.
- Promote peace, security, democracy and socio-economic development in SADC and other parts of the continent.
- Increase the voice of developing countries in multilateral institutions, promoting South-South cooperation through BRICS, G20, and other forums.
- Advance progressive internationalism and solidarity with the peoples of Palestine, Western Sahara, Cuba and others.
- Recommit South Africa to work with others in the fight against climate change, global poverty and inequality.
The ANC strongly supports the in-sourced municipal provision of basic services, including water, sanitation, and refuse removal. It commits to maintaining and expanding subsidized basic services for the poor and indigent, with national and provincial governments providing support and intervention where municipalities struggle. The party aims to improve infrastructure, address wastewater challenges, and ensure clean water access.
Key Proposals
- Maintain and expand subsidised basic services like water for the poor and indigent in municipalities.
- Give national and provincial governments greater responsibilities and powers to support and intervene in municipalities struggling to provide clean water.
- Build maintenance capacity and complete water infrastructure projects.
- Separate water services authorities from water service providers for efficiency improvements.
- Ensure proper planning and investment for immediate and future sanitation needs, including expanding access through alternative technologies.
- Complete major dams and water schemes to ensure sustainable access to water.
- Assist municipalities through public employment projects to fix water leaks.
- Ensure municipalities fulfil basic obligations: fix potholes, remove refuse regularly, keep communities clean and green, provide clean water and sanitation.
- Increase infrastructure maintenance funding and human resources for basic services.