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National Coloured Congress

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2024 National & General Elections Manifesto2024 National

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.

-2Strongly OpposesRadical State Control / Dismantle
-1OpposesIncreased Regulation / Resistance
0NeutralStatus Quo / Not explicitly addressed
+1SupportsFree Market / Policy Reform
+2Strongly SupportsRadical Free Market / Aggressive implementation

Policy Commitments

Filter by category to explore specific policy proposals.

Anti-Corruption & Ward Committees
+1Supports

The NCC strongly opposes corruption and unethical practices within government, including at the local level, citing it as a major contributor to service delivery failures and social conflict. They commit to robust monitoring, transparency, and accountability mechanisms, advocating for merit-based appointments and harsh disciplinary action against contraventions.

Key Proposals

  • Implement robust monitoring mechanisms to ensure transparency and accountability.
  • Subject unethical and unfair implementation of processes to harsh disciplinary action and criminal complaints.
  • Eradicate corruption within state-owned entities.
  • Appoint staff based on local demographics and merit.
Early Childhood Development & Libraries
+2Strongly Supports

The NCC strongly supports free, compulsory, and state-funded education from preschool to first degree, focusing on equitable access and quality in marginalized communities. They propose increasing school capacity, providing technologically advanced facilities, establishing skills development centers, and offering comprehensive support services, including social workers and psychologists.

Key Proposals

  • Ensure every learner is placed within 8 kilometers of their residence.
  • Increase capacity of all schools to reduce learner-to-class ratio.
  • Increase capacity of technologically advanced schools in poor and marginalized areas.
  • Establish proper educational and early childhood development facilities with new housing developments.
  • Prioritize skills development centers within close proximity to communities.
  • Introduce special curriculum categories like ethics, mining, trading, investment, real estate, agriculture & farming.
  • Introduce adequately compensated admin assistants for teachers in poor and marginalized communities.
  • Introduce sufficient social workers, psychologists, and psychiatric support for poor and marginalized schools.
  • Increase capacity of sport and recreation in poor and marginalized communities.
  • Re-introduce retired teachers to mentor learners and parents.
Energy & Municipal Grid Management
+1Supports

The NCC advocates for the transformation of Eskom to eradicate corruption and reduce electricity exports, while investing in energy infrastructure, including renewable sources and grid modernization. They aim to promote a more sustainable and resilient energy system and support subsidized electricity for qualifying households.

Key Proposals

  • Prioritize effective transformation of Eskom to eradicate corruption.
  • Seriously reduce coal and electricity exports to neighbouring countries.
  • Develop a plan for investments in energy infrastructure, including renewable energy sources, grid modernization, and energy efficiency initiatives.
  • Re-implement subsidized electricity use for all qualifying individuals.
Informal Settlements & Spatial Planning
+2Strongly Supports

The NCC strongly advocates for state-led housing provision, prioritizing vulnerable groups and addressing historical injustices in spatial planning. They propose a state-owned construction company to build and maintain rental stock, eradicate informal settlements, and reverse gentrification, ensuring housing is a human right.

Key Proposals

  • Prioritize housing for the elderly, infirm, and those awaiting housing opportunities pre-1994.
  • Increase the financial criteria cap for BNG (RDP) housing to R10,000.00 per month.
  • Implement the People's Housing Process and Self Help schemes.
  • Provide emergency housing for backyard dwellers on the housing database.
  • Build affordable rental units in all communities.
  • Establish a state-owned Construction Company to solve the housing crisis.
  • Ensure decent houses are built, remain the property of the state, and are maintained by the state.
  • Halt gentrification in areas like Bo-Kaap and Woodstock.
  • Immediately rename District 6, take over the CPUT campus for housing, and prioritize land claimants.
  • Commit to the complete eradication of informal settlements.
Local Border Control & Spaza Shop Regulations
+2Strongly Supports

The NCC takes a restrictive stance on immigration, viewing both internal and foreign economic migrants as exacerbating unemployment and resource scarcity, particularly in "Coloured" communities. They propose limiting foreign nationals with special skills to skills transfer roles, rather than direct employment, to prioritize local citizens.

Key Proposals

  • Restrict foreigners with specific special skills to performing skills transfer only, not employment over local citizens.
  • Address the "added drain on resources by economic migrants, local and foreign" which complicates the housing crisis.
  • Address the exacerbation of unemployment in "Coloured" communities by economic migrants from other provinces and foreign nationals.
Local Indigent Registers & Relief
+2Strongly Supports

The NCC strongly supports expanding social welfare and indigent relief at the local level, advocating for subsidized basic services, increased pensions, and the scrapping of arrears for qualifying households. They also propose re-establishing social advice offices and providing support for youth and families through mentorship and social services.

Key Proposals

  • Re-implement subsidized electricity use for all qualifying individuals.
  • Increase pension to not less than R4,000.00 per month for all qualifying individuals.
  • Scrap all arrears on rates, water, and sewerage for all qualifying individuals.
  • Re-introduce sufficiently resourced social advice offices managed by competent social workers and facilitators.
  • Re-introduce retired teachers to mentor learners and parents for self-empowerment and development.
  • Increase minimum wage to R10,000 per month.
Metro Police & Local Security
+2Strongly Supports

The NCC advocates for a tough-on-crime approach, particularly against gangs and drug merchants, whom they propose to declare as domestic terrorists and subject to militarized imprisonment. They call for increased state intervention, improved SAPS training and intelligence, and the reintroduction of the death penalty for serious repeat offenders, while also developing community safety plans.

Key Proposals

  • Implement a comprehensive state-led intervention to end gang wars in impoverished areas.
  • Ensure SAPS is available to secure all citizens, not just tourist or CBD areas.
  • Develop community safety plans in consultation with affected communities.
  • Declare gangs and drug merchants as domestic terrorists, disarm them, and jail leaders in military prisons under strict conditions.
  • Expose all SAPS candidates and staff to higher levels of physical and ethical training.
  • Re-instate police intelligence and specific task forces for high-profile serious and violent crimes.
  • Re-introduce the death penalty for premeditated murder and rape for third-time repeat offenders, especially related to the War on the Cape Flats, and for economic crimes.
Municipal Clinics & Primary Care
+2Strongly Supports

The NCC strongly advocates for a state-controlled, universal healthcare system, demanding the immediate introduction of the National Health Insurance (NHI) to ensure free access at the point of care. They propose fully funding public hospitals and clinics, building new state facilities, improving staffing and services in marginalized communities, and minimizing outsourcing to create permanent jobs.

Key Proposals

  • Immediately introduce the National Health Insurance Scheme under state control, guaranteeing free access to healthcare.
  • Fully fund all medical professions by the state and pay for their services and skills.
  • Fully fund all public hospitals and clinics in urban areas.
  • Mandate all government officials and their offspring to use public healthcare facilities.
  • Build new public hospitals and clinics in rural areas to international standards.
  • Provide 24-hour efficient and effective healthcare facilities in poor and marginalized communities.
  • Minimize state outsourcing to increase employment opportunities for permanent staff in healthcare.
  • Establish health facilities with new housing developments.
Municipal Job Creation & Townships
+2Strongly Supports

The NCC advocates for state-led job creation through mass public works projects, industrialization, and infrastructure development, specifically targeting local communities and addressing historical exclusions. They propose scrapping affirmative action, implementing employment equity based on regional demographics, and ensuring a living wage, while restricting foreign nationals to skills transfer roles.

Key Proposals

  • Scrap affirmative action policies and establish employment policies that provide work for ALL.
  • Appoint staff based on local demographics as a minimum in local government and private sector.
  • Extend EPWP jobs to longer terms, leading to full qualifications and permanent jobs at a living wage.
  • Launch mass public works projects to solve housing and other needs, employing local people.
  • Create local infrastructure to employ local people in rendering services to solve local challenges.
  • End casualisation of labour.
  • Increase the minimum wage to R10,000 per month.
  • Re-introduce industrialization and manufacturing, processing raw materials.
  • Restrict foreigners with specific special skills to skills transfer, not employment over local citizens.
Municipal Land Allocation & Expropriation
+2Strongly Supports

The NCC strongly supports radical land reform, including expropriation without compensation, to correct historical injustices of land conquest and forced removals. They advocate for a State-Owned Land Bank to manage all state-owned land for the benefit of citizens and prioritize the return of historically dispossessed land to its rightful owners, including municipal land allocation for housing.

Key Proposals

  • Support the implementation of land reform without compensation.
  • Demand the return of wealth usurped from the locals by colonizers.
  • Establish a State-Owned Land Bank as the custodian of all state-owned land to create generational wealth.
  • Urgently revisit the forceful removal Act and finalize legal recourse for descendants.
  • Release all historically dispossessed land to be returned to rightful owners.
  • Take over the CPUT campus in District 6 and convert it for housing, prioritizing land claimants.
Municipal Transport & Roads
+2Strongly Supports

The NCC advocates for a state-controlled, integrated public transport system that is safe, accessible, and affordable or free for all citizens. They propose bringing Metrorail, bus companies, and the taxi industry under state control to ensure efficient and safe commuting for workers.

Key Proposals

  • Establish an integrated public transport system paid for by the state.
  • Ensure public transport is safe, easily accessible, and either free or affordable.
  • Bring Metrorail, bus companies, and the taxi industry under state control.
Pan-Africanism, "Azania", & Macro-Politics
+1Supports

The NCC's ideology is rooted in correcting historical injustices against "indigenous peoples" (defined as "Coloured" descendants of Khoi and San), advocating for reparations from former colonial powers and Afrikaner landowners. They position themselves as a social democratic alternative to the ANC and DA, seeking to scrap racial classification and ensure equitable access for all oppressed, while promoting unity and rejecting divisive politics.

Key Proposals

  • Demand just and equitable reparations from Holland and the United Kingdom for colonial crimes.
  • Demand just and equitable reparations from Afrikaner landowners for historical exploitation.
  • Scrap the racial classification register with immediate effect, ensuring no distinctions or gradations of blackness.
  • Implement an holistic plan to address the historical legacy of land conquest, slavery, and colonialism.
  • Reclaim and reconstitute indigenous culture, language, rituals, and heritage.
  • Position as a social democratic party focused on social justice for all South Africans, particularly "indigenous peoples."
Water, Sanitation & Refuse Removal
+2Strongly Supports

The National Coloured Congress (NCC) advocates for expanded access to affordable basic services, including water, sanitation, and refuse removal, by proposing the scrapping of arrears for qualifying indigent households. They also support local employment in the provision of these services through public works projects and local infrastructure development.

Key Proposals

  • Re-implement subsidized electricity use for all qualifying individuals.
  • Scrap all arrears on rates, water, and sewerage for qualifying individuals.
  • Create local infrastructure to ensure local people are employed in the rendering of services to solve local challenges and needs in communities.