{"id":95869,"date":"2015-08-16T08:59:52","date_gmt":"2015-08-16T06:59:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=95869"},"modified":"2015-08-16T09:02:55","modified_gmt":"2015-08-16T07:02:55","slug":"anc-planning-drastic-shake-up-for-south-africa-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/government\/95869\/anc-planning-drastic-shake-up-for-south-africa-report\/","title":{"rendered":"ANC planning drastic shake-up for South Africa: report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The ANC is planning a complete overhaul of the state, which may see some provinces disappearing, and more power vested in municipalities. This is according to a report in The Sunday Independent.<\/p>\n<p>The report further stated that the ANC may look at lifestyle audits for all senior civil servants, and better vetting of all strategically placed civil servants.<\/p>\n<p>This report follows the ANC\u2019s lekgotla last month, after which a discussion document with these suggestions was produced and sent to the party\u2019s provincial structures.<\/p>\n<p>In a related report, ANC secretary-general Gwede Mantashe conceded that little progress has been made on unemployment, poverty and inequality.<\/p>\n<p>He suggested a focus on issues like land reform, the creation of a state-owned mining company, an investigation into mineral trading, and speeding up broadband rollout.<\/p>\n<p><em>The full reports are available in the Sunday Independent newspaper of 16 August 2015.<\/em><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on the ANC and South Africa<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/general\/95603\/anc-could-lose-its-majority-within-10-years\/\">ANC could lose its majority within 10 years<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/government\/94329\/state-owned-enterprises-not-about-making-profit-anc\/\">State-owned enterprises not about making profit : ANC<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/general\/93847\/anc-shocked-by-shoddy-nkandla\/\">ANC shocked by shoddy Nkandla<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The ANC is planning a complete overhaul of the state, which may include less provinces, more municipal power and lifestyle audits for all senior public servants<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":7370,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[1875,2261,26],"class_list":["post-95869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-government","tag-anc","tag-gwede-mantashe","tag-headline"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95869","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=95869"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95869\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":95879,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95869\/revisions\/95879"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}