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Policy Commitments
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BOSA strongly advocates for a capable, efficient, and merit-based government that actively combats corruption and malpractice. The party proposes significant reforms to public service appointments, accountability mechanisms, and financial oversight, including direct elections for public representatives and ending cadre deployment.
Key Proposals
- Change the law to allow for the direct elections of public representatives.
- Introduce a professionals charter for all public servants to match skills and competence to positions.
- Implement monthly performance reviews for employees in all key departments.
- Reform the Public Service Commission (PSC) with tighter guidelines on appointment and clear job specifications.
- Establish an ethics ombudsman to proactively monitor cabinet members' conduct.
- Conduct forensic lifestyle audits of all senior positions in government departments.
- Implement a digitized public rating system for public officials, with penalties and dismissal for repeat offenders.
- Restructure financial packages for key public servant positions to attract talent from the private sector and the region.
- Ensure all public procurement contracts, transactions, and state interactions with citizens are digitised.
- End the tenderpreneurship culture and cadre deployment.
BOSA strongly supports a complete overhaul of the education system, from early childhood to tertiary, to ensure quality, affordability, and skills alignment for job creation. The party emphasizes strategic focus on primary schools and creches, significant investment in public education infrastructure, digital learning, and teacher quality.
Key Proposals
- Overhaul the education system to be modern and skills-aligned.
- Ensure affordable, accessible, and quality education from the earliest stages of schooling to tertiary degrees.
- Raise the minimum matric pass mark to 50%.
- Introduce an independent education ombud, termed the Inspector General of Education, to adjudicate school standards and teacher excellence.
- Raise salaries for educators to a competitive level and curtail the power of teacher unions.
- Replace Life Orientation with an externally examined subject promoting critical thinking and general knowledge.
- Financially reward top-performing pupils in STEM subjects.
- Strategically focus on primary schools, including doubling the number of Maths and English teachers.
- Equip social workers to work closely with creches to identify home-related obstacles to learning and ensure stimulating environments.
- Implement tighter security measures at all schools to combat violence, bullying, gang-related activities, vandalism, and theft.
- Expand programmes for underperforming learners, including a post-matric year to improve Grade 12 marks.
- Reprioritise a sizable portion of the education budget to fund a massive rollout of broadband connectivity and computer centres in all schools.
- Conduct a nationwide teacher skills audit and introduce an Annual National Assessment to assess teacher proficiency.
BOSA strongly advocates for the liberalization of South Africa's electricity market to end Eskom's monopoly and ensure a reliable, affordable power supply. The party proposes enabling multiple private energy companies to generate, distribute, and sell electricity, encouraging diverse generation methods including microgrids and sustainable technologies.
Key Proposals
- Revitalise South Africa's entire energy system by adopting a back-to-basics approach.
- Enable the entrance of multiple energy companies to ensure a consistent and reliable electricity supply.
- Allow end-users to exercise choice and procure electricity at affordable rates.
- Ensure energy market players are accountable and adhere to safety regulations and standards.
- Capacitate the Department of Mineral Resources and Energy (DMRE), utilities, and regulatory bodies like NERSA with competent professionals.
- Equip NERSA with resources for regular performance and compliance reviews of market players.
- Allow energy utilities and market players to raise capital for modernizing and making energy infrastructure resilient, especially using environmentally sustainable technologies.
- Encourage investment in research and development initiatives through tax incentives.
- Liberalise the electricity market to end Eskom's monopoly.
- Encourage various generation methods, including modular nuclear, small-scale embedded generation, and block-chain regulated microgrids.
BOSA acknowledges the apartheid legacy of spatial economic exclusion and the challenge of homelessness and inadequate housing. The party proposes addressing these issues through collaboration with NGOs, the private sector, and faith-based organizations, rather than prioritizing state-built housing.
Key Proposals
- Collaborate with NGOs, the private sector, and faith-based organisations to establish adequate interventions to address homelessness and inadequate housing for those unable to provide a home for themselves.
BOSA's manifesto briefly touches on immigration, focusing on the need for immigration laws that facilitate easy access for skilled labour. There is no mention of local border control, spaza shop regulations, or strict deportation policies.
Key Proposals
- Ensure immigration laws allow for easy access of skilled labour in sectors requiring skills.
BOSA acknowledges that citizens are struggling with inadequate social grants and the need to support the poorest. The party proposes collaboration with NGOs, the private sector, and faith-based organizations to provide meals for those in need, with a primary focus on job creation as the solution to poverty.
Key Proposals
- Collaborate with NGOs, the private sector, and faith-based organisations to establish adequate interventions to nourish the poorest who are unable to provide their own meals.
BOSA proposes a multi-pronged approach to community safety, combining long-term social and economic programs with immediate, tough-on-crime interventions. The party advocates for professionalizing SAPS, significantly increasing police numbers, decentralizing law enforcement to regional and municipal levels, and exploring partnerships with private security providers.
Key Proposals
- Bolster and empower law enforcement while also addressing the root causes of crime.
- Professionalise SAPS by equipping them with cutting-edge technology, training, and transparent internal accountability mechanisms.
- Overhaul the internal disciplinary system of SAPS, including robust witness protection, secure evidence management, and stricter penalties for misconduct.
- Empower the Independent Police Investigative Directorate (IPID) to hold officers accountable.
- Implement performance-based promotions within SAPS.
- Recruit and train 120,000 new police officers to increase visible policing and boost specialised detective services at station level.
- Adequately resource SAPS with essential equipment such as police vehicles and rape kits.
- Decentralise policing by ushering in an era of smaller regional and municipal police forces.
- Explore controlled partnerships with private security providers to deliver comprehensive safety services.
- Mandate comprehensive anti-bias and racial sensitivity training for all police officers, including private security personnel.
- Invest in specialised training for all first responders to effectively address gender-based violence and provide survivor-centred services.
BOSA acknowledges the systemic collapse of healthcare and the reliance on private healthcare, committing to providing reliable public health services. The party also proposes a national civilian service year that includes work-based training in community healthcare.
Key Proposals
- Provide reliable public health services.
- Introduce a voluntary National Civilian Service year for matriculants to gain work-based training in community healthcare.
BOSA's core focus is on job creation and economic growth, particularly in disenfranchised communities, townships, and rural areas. The party proposes a mix of state-led initiatives, such as public works programs and special economic zones, alongside strong private sector collaboration and support for SMMEs and entrepreneurs.
Key Proposals
- Stimulate employment in disenfranchised communities by providing necessary infrastructure.
- Implement a rigorous public works programme for adequate road infrastructure.
- Create Township Special Economic Zones (TSEZs).
- Incentivise the development and diversification of industries in rural communities through tax credits and advantages.
- Investigate and address regulatory and institutional deficiencies hindering business growth in townships and rural areas.
- Collaborate with the private sector to establish business training and mentorship programmes for entrepreneurs.
- Provide investment capital to aspirational ventures in townships and rural communities.
- Incentivise the private sector to incorporate township-based businesses into their value chains.
- Grow the number of technical training centres in strategic areas to an internationally recognised standard.
- Increase South African manufacturing by funding community workshops and factories in townships.
- Fast-track the growth of the SMME sector by increasing financing and venture capital.
- Create a national venture fund for graduates from TVETs and universities to create companies in strategic manufacturing interests.
- Ensure SMMEs greater access to large procurement value chains within the government.
- End the tenderpreneurship culture and cadre deployment to free up opportunities for entrepreneurs to compete fairly and on merit.
The manifesto does not explicitly address land reform, municipal land allocation, or expropriation policies.
BOSA links public transport and road infrastructure to stimulating employment and business development in disenfranchised communities. The party commits to providing adequate road infrastructure through public works programs and ensuring safe and secure public transport.
Key Proposals
- Provide adequate road infrastructure through a rigorous public works programme.
- Ensure safe and secure means of public transport.
BOSA's national ideology is centered on building 'One South Africa' based on values of equality, unity, inclusiveness, dignity (Ubuntu), and community. The party envisions South Africa playing a vital role as a 'shining light' and 'launchpad' for the rest of the African continent, emphasizing internal strength and a citizen-centred approach to national rebuilding.
Key Proposals
- Build one South Africa based on values of equality, unity, inclusiveness, dignity (Ubuntu), and community.
- Position South Africa as a 'shining light' and 'launchpad' for the rest of the African continent through its growth and development.
- Rebuild the country through an integrated, citizen-centred approach to protect what has been built and invest in a proud future.
BOSA acknowledges the current challenges with water shortages and emphasizes the importance of reliable municipal services as a foundational lever for upward income mobility. The party commits to providing these essential services to citizens.
Key Proposals
- Provide reliable basic services, including municipal services.