How to read the scores
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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Strongly advocates for a meritocracy and accountability by explicitly promising to end cadre deployment in local government.
Key Proposals
- End cadre deployment and enforce merit-based appointments.
- Hold municipal employees personally accountable for corruption and mismanagement.
- Strengthen oversight bodies like public accounts and audit committees.
Supports youth mentorship and after-school programs, but does not extensively address formal education or state-funded ECD.
Key Proposals
- Partner with NGOs for job readiness and youth mentorship programmes.
- Invest in after-school sport, arts and culture programmes.
- Upgrade public spaces like libraries through private partnerships.
Aims to achieve municipal grid independence by allowing municipalities to buy/sell electricity and supporting residents who feed back into the grid.
Key Proposals
- Empower municipalities to buy and sell their own electricity directly from private energy companies.
- Enable prosumers to sell their surplus power back to the grid.
- Outsource network management for district municipalities.
Focuses on delivering title deeds, releasing state-owned land for development, and encouraging densification through mixed-use developments.
Key Proposals
- Deliver title deeds for state-subsidised housing.
- Release unutilised state-owned land parcels for housing developments.
- Enable densification of existing neighbourhoods and prioritize medium-density flats.
Does not address immigration or spaza shop regulations explicitly in this document.
Supports expanding and securing free basic services specifically for registered indigent households.
Key Proposals
- Ensure free basic services reach intended households by properly utilizing equitable share allocations.
- Run active registration campaigns to find qualifying poor families and get them signed up.
Supports devolving policing powers to local authorities and integrating private security into the broader crime-fighting strategy.
Key Proposals
- Devolve policing powers alongside an adequate budget to competent local governments.
- Promote collaboration among SAPS, municipal police, and the private security industry.
- Increase the use of technology like CCTV, AI, and gunfire detection.
Focuses on upgrading municipal clinics and ensuring they are adequately funded and staffed, without mentioning NHI.
Key Proposals
- Ensure municipalities are properly funded for health services.
- Develop Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) for inventory and dispensing.
- Adopt a public space program where private sectors can invest in municipal clinics.
Promotes free market principles by cutting red tape, opposing B-BBEE, and supporting informal traders and SMEs.
Key Proposals
- Replace B-BBEE with a non-racial economic empowerment model targeting poverty.
- Implement a 'silence-is-consent' principle to reduce red tape and bureaucratic delays.
- Create 'investment-ready' toolkits to attract and retain investment.
Strongly protects private property rights and opposes illegal land invasions and expropriation.
Key Proposals
- Amend the PIE Act to protect constitutionally entrenched property rights.
- Capacitate municipal police to respond promptly against land grabs.
- Ensure provisions are made for rapid release of land to prevent occupations.
Advocates for devolution of passenger rail to metros and integrated public transport systems.
Key Proposals
- Devolution of passenger rail management to capable metros.
- Plan for seamless connectivity of all public transport systems.
- Improve road and traffic infrastructure.
Does not address national macro-ideology beyond focusing on pragmatic service delivery and good governance.
Pledges to fix failing water systems and improve refuse removal by ringfencing revenue for infrastructure and bringing in private sector expertise through PPPs.
Key Proposals
- Ringfence water and sanitation revenue for infrastructure maintenance.
- Unlock private investment through public-private partnerships (PPPs).
- Separate water service authorities and service providers.