{"id":438321,"date":"2020-10-06T09:31:59","date_gmt":"2020-10-06T07:31:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=438321"},"modified":"2020-10-06T09:31:59","modified_gmt":"2020-10-06T07:31:59","slug":"ramaphosa-outlines-the-ancs-plan-for-south-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/government\/438321\/ramaphosa-outlines-the-ancs-plan-for-south-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"Ramaphosa outlines the ANC&#8217;s plan for South Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To both preserve existing jobs and create new ones, South Africa will focus on an infrastructure-led strategy as part of its primary coronavirus recovery plan, says president Cyril Ramaphosa.<\/p>\n<p>In a virtual address after an ANC lekgotla on Monday, the president said that this infrastructure plan will include investments in energy, water, public transport and other areas.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The path and speed of economic recovery will depend on many different factors, and the lekgotla developed criteria and timelines to guide the government&#8217;s actions in a number of areas,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Ramaphosa said that the key areas include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Strengthening energy security;<\/li>\n<li>Localisation through industrialisation &#8211; including a &#8216;thriving&#8217; local industrial base;<\/li>\n<li>Strengthening food security;<\/li>\n<li>Infrastructure investment and delivery that meets the NDP goals;<\/li>\n<li>Support for tourism;<\/li>\n<li>Green economy interventions;<\/li>\n<li>Public employment programmes;<\/li>\n<li>Gender equality and economic inclusion of women and youth;<\/li>\n<li>Macro-economic policy interventions.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ZjqwfSP38j0\" width=\"640\" height=\"430\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In approaching these key economic focus areas, the ANC supports a phased approach to our economic recovery,&#8221; Ramaphosa said.<\/p>\n<p>The president said that the first phase focused on saving lives and included a massive healthcare response.<\/p>\n<p>The second phase focused on saving livelihoods and included support for households and businesses &#8211; including various social and businesses grants.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In the third phase, we are going to implement a programme of reconstruction and recovery. The ANC will guide the work of government, working with social partners to generate higher rates of economic growth, investment and job creation.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our aim is to radically transform our society to make it truly non-racial, non-sexist and economically more inclusive.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Infrastructure<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Ramaphosa said that the country&#8217;s reconstruction and recovery will be infrastructure-led, with a focus on energy sector reform and security.<\/p>\n<p>It will also include large-scale investment in:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Water and sanitation;<\/li>\n<li>Rail;<\/li>\n<li>Ports;<\/li>\n<li>Roads and bridges;<\/li>\n<li>Human settlements;<\/li>\n<li>Health;<\/li>\n<li>Education and skills development;<\/li>\n<li>Digital infrastructure; and<\/li>\n<li>Public transport.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8220;The programme will be inclusive as it will focus on local employment and will seek to overcome the patterns of economic marginalisation as it transforms the structure of the economy,&#8221; the president said.<\/p>\n<p>He said that the programme also aims to include SMMEs and co-operatives and recognise their role in creating work, particularly for youth and those people entering into the labour market for the first time across all economic sectors.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;To achieve significant job creation multipliers, the emphasis will be on localisation, including maximising the use of South African materials and construction companies as well as labour-intensive methods.&#8221;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Read: <a href=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/property\/437957\/ramaphosa-launches-new-r84-billion-mega-city-in-gauteng\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ramaphosa launches new R84 billion mega-city in Gauteng<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To both preserve existing jobs and create new ones, South Africa will focus on an infrastructure-led strategy as part of its primary coronavirus recovery plan, says President Cyril Ramaphosa.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":313682,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-438321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-government","tag-headline"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438321","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=438321"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438321\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":438361,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438321\/revisions\/438361"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/313682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=438321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=438321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=438321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}