AgangSA's turnaround strategy for South Africa is based in empowerment, education, entrepreneurship, employment and effective governance.
Some of the party's commitments are listed below.
AgangSA promises to empower citizens by:
- Emphasising education and skills development as the great leveller;
- Creating a philosophy in government of servant-leadership;
- Ensuring healthcare is accessible and affordable;
- Ensuring that government transfers 50% of its land for residential and industrial development;
- Empowering citizens to use the land to produce food;
- Reconceptualising the land reform process and encouraging the use of modern technology to grow industrial crops such as bamboo, hemp, flax and soya;
- Improving teacher training, opening additional teacher training colleges;
- Developing teacher internship training opportunities;
- Introducing a 50% minimum pass mark for all subjects and grades;
- Conducting subject-specific competency testing of all teachers;
- Fixing basic infrastructure;
- Introducing public service as a way to pay back free tertiary education;
- Instilling a strong chain of accountability within the education system;
- Providing bursaries for students who achieve grades of 70% or higher;
- Building greater technical and educational expertise;
- Abolishing the Sectoral Education and Training Authority (SETA) system and linking FET colleges closer to industry;
- Cutting the amount of red tape faced by small business;
- Changing the tax system to better support entrepreneurship;
- Strengthening competition law and industrial policy to eliminate barriers to entry, competition and new investments;
- Opening South Africa to foreigners who want to establish high-growth businesses;
- Opening one-stop support and financing hubs to replace the large number of overlapping provincial and national government small business support organisations;
- Developing partnerships with banks and financiers of small business;
- Establishing joint government-industry ‘rapid review’ teams in key sectors;
- Linking ministers’ salaries to job creation and growth targets;
- Reintroducing two-tier bargaining at both the industry and plant level. Productivity bargaining will also be introduced at the plant level to ensure a greater link between productivity and wage increases;
- Ensuring that workers hired through labour brokers enjoy the same rights as directly employed workers;
- Introducing a tax rebate system for demonstrated training and development and reintroducing industry colleges to train artisans;
- Converting some public schools into vocational schools;
- Mandating government departments to spend a portion of their infrastructure investments with local businesses and labour;
- Implementing measures to break down monopolies and cartels.
- AgangSA wants to put citizens first in effective governance by:
- Demilitarising the police;
- Securing the country’s borders and developing good diplomatic relations with other countries;
- Including introducing a minimum sentence for any public official found guilty of corruption and a life ban from working in the civil service;
- Banning government officials and their families from conducting business with the state;
- Creating a culture of transparency in government;
- Passing a whistle-blower law that rewards and protects the honest;
- Introducing an entrance examination and clearly defined and articulated entrance standards for all public servants.
