HALVING POVERTY AND

UNEMPLOYMENT

Presentation
Free State SMS Conference
29 August 2006

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Introduction
 The commitment by the Government to
half poverty and unemployment, properly
understood, reflects a long standing
commitment by the ruling party ANC to
the course of national liberation and
social progress
 ANC Manifesto : Vision 2014

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 Expression of commitment to
international community and
progressives world wrt UN Millennium
Development Goals (MDG)
 Ten Year Review

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Vision 2014
Objectives of Government:
 Grow the economy

 Tackle poverty and unemployment

 Promote social inclusion

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Targets and Objectives
 Reduce unemployment by half
 Reduce poverty by half
 Provide the skills required by the economy
 Ensure that all South Africans are able fully to exercise their
constitutional rights and enjoy the full dignity of freedom
 Compassionate government service to the people
 Improve services to achieve a better national health profile
and reduction of preventable causes of death, including
violent crime and road accidents
 Significantly reduce the number of serious and priority
crimes and cases awaiting trial
 Position South Africa strategically as an effective force in
global relations

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Meeting the challenge
Better performance by the state identified
as one of the major measures to inform the
trajectory for the Second Decade of
Freedom
 Make government as a whole work better in
meeting common objectives and outcomes;
 Need for decisive, coordinated interventions to
improve the state's capacity to spend and
deliver services
 Need to specifically include a geographical
dimension to growth and employment

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 New trajectory for growth and development
- ASGISA,
 Make strategic choices in expending effort
and allocating resources
- Infrastructure
 Identify the key things required to attain it
- Bio-fuel, transport hub

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Free State GDS
Programme of Action:
 Governance and Administration

 Economic Development

 Human and Social Development

 Crime Prevention and Justice

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Where are we
(MDG)
 Primary completion rate:
75,5 - 95,6
 Literacy rate
88,4 - 94,3
 Seats by women
100 - 131
 Slum
46,2 - 33,3
 Telephone access
9.36 - 46,76

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 CONCLUSION
General indications are that the country is well
on course economic growth and social
development:
 Economic growth of 4.9 % (target of 6 min)

 More people benefiting

 More policy interventions and measures

 Political and social stability

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“ AGE OF HOPE”

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