Cabinet will be cut to a maximum of 20 posts and deputy minister positions done away with
Lost your password? Please enter your username or email address. You will receive a link to create a new password via email.Lost your password? Please enter your username or email address. You will receive a link to create a new password via email.has launched its 2024 election manifesto with a 30 year “opportunity fund” to replace black economic empowerment and a promise to secure South Africa’s borders and overhaul its criminal justice system.
ActionSA has identified 18 key areas in which it has appointed “champions”, effectively shadow ministers, a number of whom delivered details of their plans for action in each sector as part of the manifesto launch. Government would insource all functions that it possibly could, to build capacity and do away both over-reliance on consultants and the exploitation of workers currently retained on contract for decades, especially at municipal level.
Rehabilitation clinics would be opened at community level to provide desperately needed services that were currently lacking, with ActionSA focusing on the need to address the underlying social and economic drivers of crime. The party will reintroduce specialised policing units, including the Scorpions and the Brixton Murdery and Robbery Unit and specialised narcotics and sexual crimes units in order to secure more prosecutions, Mashaba said.
The visa regime would be overhauled to make it easier for foreign nationals to enter South Africa legally, and to smoothen the process of bringing scarce skills – along with tourists and foreign investment – into South Africa.Mashba said the party was “unapologetic” about its stance on immigration as foreign nationals were expected to respect the same rules and document regime as locals.
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