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Policy Commitments
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The party recognizes widespread corruption across government spheres and aims to combat it through strengthened investigative directorates, crime intelligence, and cleaning out corrupt officials. They propose a significant restructuring of local governance by introducing a 'traditional government sphere' to handle development responsibilities in areas under traditional authority, indicating a shift towards incorporating traditional leadership into formal local administration.
Key Proposals
- Introduce a new administrative arm of local government, the traditional government sphere, to discharge the development responsibilities in areas under their authority.
- Strengthen the fight against corruption by increasing the funding and capacity of the investigative directorate.
- Strengthen crime intelligence and clean out operatives that have links with criminal syndicates.
- Revamp the Department of Home Affairs through eliminating corruption and updating immigration infrastructure.
- Ensure that there is a dedicated fight to eliminate corruption among correctional officials and police.
The party strongly advocates for a free, mandatory, and high-quality state-led education system from early childhood to postgraduate level. They propose a massive state-led infrastructure build for educational facilities, ensuring all schools and early education centers provide meals, and promoting African languages and history in the curriculum to foster national consciousness.
Key Proposals
- Ensure that the education system is fee free and compulsory from kindergarten to post graduate education.
- Implement a mass state-led infrastructure build to bring all physical infrastructure, facilities, and materials in educational facilities to minimum norms and standards within 5 years.
- Ensure that all schools and early education centres will serve breakfast, lunch, and an after-school meal for all children.
- Establish indigenous languages as mandatory official languages taught in schools from grade zero to grade 12, used in higher education, legal proceedings, and all official state communication.
- Include a mandatory subject into the education curriculum focusing on African history, values, ethics, and morals.
- Expand the higher education system by increasing capacity in existing universities and building new universities/branches in underserved regions.
The party strongly opposes the privatization of electricity, including the Independent Power Producers (IPPs) programme and the unbundling of Eskom. They advocate for strengthening Eskom as a state-owned entity, renewing its coal fleet, and accelerating nuclear build to ensure cheap and reliable electricity provision for all citizens and industry.
Key Proposals
- Review and repeal all privatisation agreements, the Independent Power Producers (IPPs) programme, and the unbundling of Eskom.
- Reverse and rescind the Un-Just Transition from coal, renew Eskom's coal fleet and accelerate Eskom's Nuclear New Build program.
- Revive and recapacitate the deliberately collapsed SOEs (including Eskom) through financial restructuring, enhancing operational efficiency and strengthening corporate governance structures.
- Ensure that key state SOEs provide cheap electricity for citizens and industry.
The party views access to shelter as a fundamental human need and aims to address persistent spatial inequalities and homelessness, which they attribute to apartheid-era policies. They propose a state-led approach to housing delivery, including a state construction company, co-operative social housing, and mixed-income/mixed-use developments, with a focus on integrating affordable housing and expropriating abandoned properties.
Key Proposals
- Establish a state construction company dedicated to the delivery of housing, project management and quality assurance.
- Engage community-based organizations and traditional authorities to drive a massive programme to revamp and re-design human settlements to meet minimum norms and standards.
- Encourage the establishment of professionally run co-operative social housing structures to manage state-provided housing units.
- Offer mixed-income and mixed-use developments, integrating diverse housing options and creating vibrant, walkable communities.
- Use inclusionary zoning to implement policies and incentives for affordable housing units within integrated developments.
- Expropriate property that has been abandoned to expand public housing provision.
The party views illegal immigration as a significant threat to national security and a strain on public resources, particularly in townships and cities. They advocate for strict border control measures, including assigning border control to the military, implementing advanced surveillance technology, and revamping the Department of Home Affairs and the Border Management Authority to be more effective and eliminate corruption.
Key Proposals
- Strengthen border control by assigning border control to the military.
- Implement advanced technological solutions to enhance border surveillance.
- Revamp the Department of Home Affairs through eliminating corruption and updating immigration infrastructure.
- Enhance the effectiveness of the Border Management Authority (BMA) by capacitating and adequately resourcing the agency.
- Foster closer collaboration and coordination between the BMA and other relevant government agencies.
The party strongly supports expanding social welfare, aiming to introduce a comprehensive social security system that guarantees a minimum standard of living, addressing historical disparities. This includes providing state employment, an adequate Basic Income Grant, significantly increasing child support, old-age, and disability grants, and eliminating homelessness through well-resourced shelters and comprehensive support services.
Key Proposals
- Introduce a comprehensive social security system, constituted by clearly defined elements, to guarantee a well-defined minimum standard of living.
- The state will offer employment to everyone who is willing and able to work, at a decent wage above the minimum wage of R4500, with skills development and training opportunities.
- Introduce an adequate Basic Income Grant above the poverty line of R1 558 for those who are not able to work.
- Increase the Child Support Grant to the food poverty line of R760.
- Increase the old-age pension and the disability grant to the minimum wage of R4500 so that it guarantees a decent minimum standard of living for the aged and disabled.
- Eliminate homelessness by providing well-resourced shelters for the homeless and facilitate access to drug rehabilitation, skills development, training, and decent employment.
The party acknowledges the severe crime problem and insufficient policing resources, leading to public insecurity and high rates of violent crime. They propose a multifaceted approach to community safety, including significant investment in law enforcement recruitment, training, and equipment, improving police-community relations, strengthening crime intelligence, and establishing specialized units for gender-based crimes. They also suggest a referendum on the death penalty.
Key Proposals
- Adopt a multifaceted approach that involves increasing investments in law enforcement recruitment, training, and equipment.
- Implement policies to improve police-community relations and enhance collaboration with other stakeholders.
- Foster closer co-operation between police services and crime intelligence, thereby enhancing proactive crime prevention strategies.
- Resource forensic laboratories to speed up arrests and improve convictions.
- Ensure that each police station has a well-resourced specialised unit dedicated to the investigation of gender-based crimes.
- Hold a referendum on the death penalty.
The party strongly supports a state-led healthcare system, advocating for the full implementation of the National Health Insurance (NHI) to redistribute resources from the expensive private sector. They propose establishing a state pharmaceutical company, upgrading health infrastructure, expanding medical education, and integrating traditional African healthcare into the mainstream system, ensuring all facilities are well-resourced and accessible 24/7.
Key Proposals
- Implement the National Health Insurance (NHI) scheme as an instrument to redistribute resources in the healthcare system away from the expensive private health care system.
- Establish a state pharmaceutical company to break the power of private capitalist monopoly over the South African health system.
- Upgrade and expand health infrastructure, rapidly bringing health facilities up to minimum standards and norms.
- Expand the capacity and intake of medical schools and ensure that all universities have medical schools.
- Make it mandatory that every citizen undergo a health screening once a year.
- Support medical pluralism so that people have a choice to access alternative and traditional African healthcare and healing in public/private facilities.
- Ensure that appropriate budgets are available for all healthcare facilities to operate for 24 hours, 7 days a week, and are adequately resourced with ambulances.
The party advocates for state-led economic development, prioritizing industrialization and supporting Small, Medium, and Micro Enterprises (SMMEs), particularly those owned by designated groups, to address poverty and unemployment. They aim to re-ignite small town and rural economies through Special Economic Zones and ensure state-provided employment opportunities, including in townships, by recapitalizing public transport infrastructure.
Key Proposals
- Provide permanent jobs for all capable and willing workers at a basic salary of R4500, with training and skills opportunities.
- Re-orient fiscal policy to support SMMEs in tradeable sectors towards an outward-orientation and export performance.
- Aggressively pursue the strategy of Special Economic Zones to re-ignite small town and rural economies to address uneven spatial economic development.
- Establish a consolidated approach by Development Finance Institutions (DFIs) to funding SMMEs, with credit guidance and targets for Black, women, military veteran, and youth-owned SMMEs.
- Review and repeal regulatory barriers and procurement regulations that stifle SMMEs.
- Recapitalize the Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) system to be more efficient in not only the cities, but the townships.
The party unequivocally supports radical land reform, advocating for the expropriation of all land without compensation, viewing land theft as a foundational issue of inequality. Ownership will be transferred to the people under state and traditional leadership custodianship, with guidelines for state leasing and equitable distribution of farmland. This includes expropriating abandoned properties for public housing provision.
Key Proposals
- Expropriate all land without compensation, transferring ownership to the people under the custodianship of the state and traditional leaders.
- Establish guidelines for the state to lease land to citizens for various purposes and based on a comprehensive national development plan.
- Equitably distribute farmland and divide it up on an equal basis among the farming population.
- Provide financial aid, research support, and marketing guidance to newly settled farmers to ensure their success.
- Expropriate property that has been abandoned to expand public housing provision.
The party strongly advocates for a state-led, integrated public transport system, opposing privatization and aiming to provide cheap, efficient services. They propose subsidizing and financing the taxi industry through a state-owned fund, establishing a state-owned manufacturing company for transport vehicles, recapitalizing Bus Rapid Transit (BRT), and revitalizing the national rail system, including PRASA, to serve both urban and rural areas.
Key Proposals
- Integrate public transport and accomplish subsidization of the taxi industry within the system of public transport.
- Establish a state-owned fund to finance the taxi industry on a developmental basis.
- Establish a state-owned taxi and bus manufacturing company to provide affordable, safe and green vehicles.
- Recapitalize the Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) system to be more efficient in not only the cities, but the townships.
- Increase access and provide an integrated transport system in the rural areas by revitalizing the rail system across the country and rebuilding train stations in small towns, rural areas and in cities.
- Recapitalize PRASA and maintain Rail as a national competency.
The party's national ideology is rooted in radical anti-colonialism, anti-neoliberalism, and anti-Western imperialism, viewing the 1994 settlement as a 'strategic defeat'. They advocate for re-centering South Africa on African cultural values, scrapping the current constitution for parliamentary supremacy, and integrating traditional leadership into governance. Internationally, they champion Pan-Africanism, solidarity with anti-imperialist nations (Russia, Cuba, Palestine), and strengthening ties with BRICS to reduce dependence on the West.
Key Proposals
- Re-center our country on African cultural, and moral values.
- Move our country away from constitutional supremacy toward unfettered parliamentary supremacy.
- Hold a referendum to scrap the 1996 constitution and replace it with a parliamentary system with or without a codified constitution.
- Establish a lower house of parliament comprised of elected representatives and an upper house comprised of Indigenous kings and queens as well as other traditional leaders.
- Stand in solidarity with Russia, Cuba, and Palestine in their struggles against Western imperialist forces.
- Withdraw from the weaponized International Criminal Court (ICC).
- Work with the BRICS countries to explore alternative currencies and international settlement mechanisms.
- Use state-to-state co-operation in Africa to drive regional and continent-wide investments to build and expand development corridors in the region.
The party strongly opposes the commodification and privatization of basic services like water, viewing it as profit-driven at the expense of citizens. They advocate for state-led provision of these services, ensuring they are affordable and accessible to all. This includes reversing policies that favor private capital in water infrastructure.
Key Proposals
- Reverse policies that seek to privilege private capital at the expense of the state in the provision of water infrastructure.
- Ensure that key state-owned enterprises (SOEs) provide cheap water for citizens and industry.