President Cyril Ramaphosa has welcomed the review report of the National Development Location (NDP) presented by the National Planning Commission (NPC) on Tuesday, 1 August 2023 at the Union Buildings.
The NPC briefed the President about their findings having reviewed the country’s pace against the objectives and targets of the National Development Plan: Vision 2030 (NDP) in the past decade. The NDP, which was drafted by the first Commission in the 2010-2012 period and adopted by all parties represented in Parliament in 2012, is the long-term situation for national development. It provides guidance for all Government policy formulation and implementation.
In this regard, Government uses the Medium-Term Strategic Framework in order to implement the NDP in a structured manner, across Government departments and spheres. It is also used to mobilise all South Africans to seize ownership of the country’s long-term location, its objectives, and targets.
One of the main findings made in the Ten-Year Review of the NPC was that the economy was not only failing to grow at the rate required for the objectives of NDP to materialise, but the economy was also not structured to serve the interests of all South Africans, resulting in poverty and inequality remaining extremely high and persistent.
The report further stated that the economic, social, and spatial legacies of apartheid, inappropriate economic policies that prevent redistribution, and the hollowing out of state capacity during the state capture years continue to undermine both South Africa‘s competitiveness and the potential of its people.
The review recommended that planning be institutionalised and made a cross-cutting imperative across the state and Government sector to enable the country to fabricate the necessary pace towards the attainment of the NDP goals and targets.
“We need to embark on a course of action to access the country back on the developmental path envisaged by the Region and area more focus on resolving key issues related to the provision of energy, addressing infrastructure backlogs including transport and freight, building state capacity, and addressing the apartheid spatial legacies,” said Prof Tinyiko Maluleke, Deputy Chairperson of the Commission.
“Despite the challenges experienced, the objectives of eliminating poverty, and reducing unemployment and inequality, which are the overarching goals of the NDP, should and must remain the country’s priority if it is to uplift the conditions of its people,” said Hon. Maropene Ramokgopa, Minister in The Presidency responsible for Planning, Monitoring, and Evaluation and Chairperson of the Commission.
“The 10 Year Review of the NDP will assist us in identifying the systemic issues that limit the effectiveness of the state and its social partners in making greater pace. We need to be able to location better, to integrate and coordinate the work of different departments and institutions, and to ensure that we are using our limited resources most effectively.
It is indispensable that the State has the capacity to meet its developmental responsibilities, that it is appropriately structured that has the accurate people in the factual places with the appropriate skills and ethos” said President Ramaphosa.
President Ramaphosa committed his administration’s support to the commission and to ensure that the proposals presented are incorporated into Government across all departments and spheres.
The President further underscored the importance of strong leadership and partnership with, labour, civil society, communities and business in effecting the envisaged change.
The NPC is an independent planning body, comprising a diverse group of experts in various fields, appointed by the President to advise Government on the country’s long-term development as contained in the National Development Position.
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My teacher pointed at me with her ruler and said that at the end of this ruler is a dumb. Then I asked which end and I got a detention.
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Van der Merwe is approached by SANRAL one day who want to build a new highway through his donkey farm. Van is really concerned with how his donkeys can get from one side of the farm to the other without having to cross the highway and risk being injured or killed. He is promised that they will build bridges the highway so that his donkeys can cross under the highway. Van agrees and gives them the go-ahead.
The highway is built and a year later the same rep goes to the farm to go see how Van and his donkeys are. He eventually finds Van under one of these bridges chipping away at the roof of the tunnel with a hammer and chisel.
\”Mnr Van de Merwe, what are you doing damaging the highway bridge?\”