MANIFESTO

Only if we do things differently can we realise our vision of united and non-racial communities in which everyone feels at home.

We need to locate new housing developments closer to work and other economic opportunities than has generally been done in the past.

Without active community participation and empowerment, the challenge of ensuring effective accountable and clean local government will not be realised.

The ANC is committed to further strengthening the voice of communities and ensuring that all ANC councillors serve those they represent and are accountable to them.

Over the years we achieved sustained economic growth, but unemployment and inequality remain high. We need to ensure that our economy creates more jobs, decent work and reduces income inequalities.

Government has unveiled and is implementing its New Growth Path programme whose primary objective is to create at least 5 million jobs in the next 10 years.

Since 2000 we have been developing a new non-racial, democratic and developmental local government system, which will ensure that municipalities assume their full role as enshrined in the country’s constitution.

Many municipalities are functioning well, but many others, especially in the rural areas, are still struggling, lacking the capacity and resources they need to fulfil their functions.

Over the years, our infrastructure development programmes of road construction, electricity distribution and water supply have expanded these services but without sufficient attention to maintenance and refurbishment of existing and new infrastructure.

Over the next three years, government has committed over R800-billion for social and economic infrastructure, including the programme to address the repair and maintenance of municipal infrastructure.