Minister of Water and Sanitation, Nomvula Mokonyane unveiled a budget of R16 446 530 000, 00 to improve water accessibility to the country’s citizens for the 2015/16 Financial Year. Addressing Parliament during her Budget Vote speech last week the...
Government is serious about delivering on the commitments it made in the National Development Plan (NDP) regarding eliminating poverty and reducing inequality in South Africa by 2030. “We have this plan to ensure that we turn the unemployment...
South Africa has possibly the largest infrastructure build programme on the African continent, Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa said. “Not only does this investment create work opportunities and benefit companies in construction, materials supply,...
Government needs to transfer 8.9 million hectares of agricultural land by 2030 in order to meet the National Development Plan (NDP) target, says Rural Development and Land Reform Deputy Minister Mncebisi Skwatsha. Delivering the departmental Budget...
Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation Minister in the Presidency, Jeff Radebe, says coordinating, monitoring and evaluating the implementation of the National Development Plan (NDP) is at the top of the department’s priorities. Minister Radebe on...
More than 400 million people in Africa live in urban areas and because of high rural to urban migration rates the number of people living in urban areas will increase from 62% to 70% by the year 2030. In 2011, the South African government...
The South African Local Government Association (Salga) concluded its three-day 2015 National Members Assembly (NMA) with a commitment to support the Back to Basics programme. This year’s NMA coincided with South Africa celebrating 15 years of...
President Jacob Zuma says the country’s provinces and municipalities must do much more to implement the National Development Plan (NDP). “We … are pleased with the speed of implementation of the NDP by provinces and municipalities but feel that...
R840 million will be allocated to historically disadvantaged institutions (HDIs) from the development grant over the next two financial years. This emerged during a meeting in Parliament on Wednesday, where the Portfolio Committee on Higher...
