{"id":122723,"date":"2016-05-06T13:05:19","date_gmt":"2016-05-06T11:05:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=122723"},"modified":"2016-05-06T13:05:19","modified_gmt":"2016-05-06T11:05:19","slug":"10-things-the-anc-got-right-in-south-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/trending\/122723\/10-things-the-anc-got-right-in-south-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"10 things the ANC got right in South Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President Jacob Zuma says that, while South Africa faces several challenges as a new democracy and a developing country, &#8220;our country\u2019s positive attributes far outweigh the challenges&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is a fact that the country is a much better place to live in now than it was before 1994,&#8221; the president often says.<\/p>\n<p>Indeed, the slogan of the ruling party, the ANC, ahead of the local government elections on 3 August is: &#8220;Together We Move South Africa forward&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Despite losing support over the past 22 years, the ANC continues to rule with a 62% majority, and represents the bulk of South Africa&#8217;s people.<\/p>\n<p>ANC deputy president Cyril Ramaphosa maintains that the party has significantly improved the lives of South Africans since the advent of the democratic dispensation in 1994.<\/p>\n<p>These are\u00a010 ways the ruling party has done just that &#8211; listing some of its greatest achievements to date.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Electricity<\/strong> &#8211; Approximately 12 million households have access to electricity, seven million more than in 1994.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Water<\/strong> &#8211; Approximately 93% of South Africans had access to potable water last year, compared to 62% in 1994.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Land and economic transformation<\/strong> &#8211; Nearly eighty thousand land claims, totaling 3.4 million hectares, have been settled and 1.8 million people have benefited.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Housing\u00a0<\/strong>&#8211; Nearly 500 informal\u00a0 settlements have been replaced with quality housing and basic services. Three million free houses have been built, benefiting more than 16 million people.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Education<\/strong> &#8211; More than nine million children attend no-fee schools, while 9 million children are also provided with free meals at school.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Healthcare<\/strong> &#8211; South Africans are healthier and are living longer. The average life expectancy has moved from 53 years to 62 years of age and beyond.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Social welfare<\/strong> &#8211; The country has seen a dramatic is the rise in the number of recipients of social grants, from 2.4 million in 1996 to 17 million in 2016.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<div><strong>Sanitation<\/strong> &#8211; In 1994, only 50% of households had access to decent sanitation. This is up to 80%.<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Black middle class<\/strong> &#8211; South Africa has seen strong growth in the black middle class, believed to have surpassed that of white South Africans several years ago already.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Literacy<\/strong> &#8211; <span class=\"st\">In total, 92.9% of South Africans can read and write.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on the ANC<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/government\/121636\/south-africans-say-life-was-better-before-anc-took-over-poll\/\"><strong>South Africans say life was better before ANC took over: poll<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/general\/121321\/blacks-have-embraced-reconciliation-whites-have-not-anc\/\"><strong>Blacks have embraced reconciliation, whites have not: ANC<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/government\/120907\/how-the-anc-is-leading-municipalities-to-financial-ruin\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>How the ANC is leading municipalities to financial ruin<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Jacob Zuma says that, while South Africa faces several challenges as a new democracy and a developing country, &#8220;our country\u2019s positive attributes far outweigh the challenges&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":96017,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1875,26],"class_list":["post-122723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-trending","tag-anc","tag-headline"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122723","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122723"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122723\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":122737,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122723\/revisions\/122737"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/96017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}