{"id":51585,"date":"2014-01-13T12:31:54","date_gmt":"2014-01-13T10:31:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=51585"},"modified":"2014-01-13T14:14:26","modified_gmt":"2014-01-13T12:14:26","slug":"anc-promises-better-broadband-and-free-wifi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/broadband\/51585\/anc-promises-better-broadband-and-free-wifi\/","title":{"rendered":"ANC promises better broadband and free WiFi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a title=\"ANC\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/2387-ANC-African-National-Congress\">ANC<\/a> has promised to rapidly expand access to and use of ICT infrastructure in its 2014 election manifesto.<\/p>\n<p>President <a title=\"Jacob Zuma\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/2611-Jacob-Zuma\">Jacob Zuma<\/a> unveiled the ANC\u2019s 2014 election manifesto at an event at the Mbombela Stadium in Nelspruit.<\/p>\n<p>The ANC\u2019s 2014 election manifesto unveiled various initiatives, including the creation of at least 6 million jobs, speeding up land reform and reversing the legacy of apartheid.<\/p>\n<p>The manifesto further stated that the ANC plans to rapidly expand access to and use of ICT infrastructure. This will be achieved through the following initiatives by the ANC:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<ul>\n<li>We will invest in a comprehensive plan to expand broadband access throughout the country and substantially reduce the cost of communication.<\/li>\n<li>We aim to connect all schools, public health and other government facilities through broadband by 2020, and at least 90% of our communities should have substantial and superfast broadband capacity by 2020.<\/li>\n<li>Government will support and develop free-WiFi areas in cities, towns and rural areas. The local electronics sector and emerging entrepreneurs will be stimulated as part of our efforts to support the manufacturing industry.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>This article was <a title=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/government\/94717-anc-promises-better-broadband-free-wi-fi-and-cheaper-communications.html\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/government\/94717-anc-promises-better-broadband-free-wi-fi-and-cheaper-communications.html\">first published on MyBroadband<\/a><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on the ANC&#8217;s manifesto<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Backlash over ANC manifesto job promises\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/government\/51575\/backlash-over-anc-manifesto-job-promises\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Backlash over ANC manifesto job promises<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"SA unemployment drops slightly\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/general\/48525\/sa-unemployment-drops-slightly\/\"><strong>SA unemployment drops slightly<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Matriculants warned about job prospects\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/general\/51322\/matriculants-warned-about-job-prospects\/\"><strong>Matriculants warned about job prospects<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Unemployment the most pressing economic issue: Marcus\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/general\/43339\/unemployment-the-most-pressing-economic-issue-marcus\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Unemployment the most pressing economic issue: Marcus<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The ANC has promised to rapidly expand access to and use of ICT infrastructure in its 2014 election manifesto<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":7350,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5553],"tags":[1875,26,7300,2180],"class_list":["post-51585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-broadband","tag-anc","tag-headline","tag-manifesto","tag-wi-fi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51585","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=51585"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51585\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51602,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51585\/revisions\/51602"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}