The National Development Plan (NDP) aims to eradicate poverty, increase employment, create sustainable livelihoods and reduce inequality by 2030.
Over the next five years, the ANC promises to:
- Build an inclusive economy that will create jobs;
- Transform rural areas;
- Ensure decent living conditions and sustainable human settlements;
- Improve and expand education and training;
- Ensure quality healthcare for all;
- Expand comprehensive social security;
- Fight corruption and crime;
- Build a united nation and promote social cohesion.
- Remain true to its values of courage, service, self-sacrifice, human solidarity, integrity, humility, honesty, hard-work, self-discipline and mutual respect;
- Work with its allies and the people to move South Africa forward through the commitments it has set out in its manifesto;
- Strengthen the bonds of trust and solidarity with people where these have been broken and continue to listen to and effectively communicate with the people;
- Act against ANC members and ANC elected representatives found guilty in a court of law.
- The economy regained the one million jobs lost as a result of the 2008 global economic crisis. Employment is now higher than it has ever been;
- More than R1-trillion has been invested in national infrastructure projects, compared with R451-billion in the previous five years;
- The proportion of adults with access to banking services grew from 60% in 2009 to 75% in 2013;
- Nearly 500 informal settlements have been replaced with quality housing and basic services;
- The matric pass rate increased from 60.6% in 2009 to 78.2% in 2013;
- FET enrolments doubled from 345 566 in 2010 to 657 690 students in 2012;
- Loans and bursaries to poor students grew from 2.3 billion in 2008 to 8 billion in 2013;
- Over seven-million learners are in no fee schools, up from five million in 2009;
- Teacher education has expanded—the number of new teacher graduates doubled from 6 000 in 2009 to 13 000 in 2012;
- Through the Prevention of Mother to Child Transmission programme, the number of babies born HIV-positive was reduced by 66% from 24 000 in 2008 to 8 200 in 2011;
- Average life expectancy increased by four more years to 60 years in 2012.
