THE PLAN IN BRIEF
By 2030
Eliminate income poverty – Reduce the proportion of households with a monthly income below R419 per person (in 2009 prices) from 39% to zero.
Reduce inequality – The Gini coefficient should fall from 0.69 to 0.6.
Enabling milestones
Increase employment from 13 million in 2010 to 24 million in 2030.
Raise per capita income from R50 000 in 2010 to R120 000 by 2030.
Increase the share of national income of the bottom 40% from 6% to 10%.
Establish a competitive base of infrastructure, human resources and regulatory frameworks.
Ensure that skilled, technical, professional and managerial posts better reflect the country's racial, gender and disability makeup.
Broaden ownership of assets to historically disadvantaged groups.
Increase the quality of education so that all children have at least two years of preschool education and all children in grade 3 can read and write.
Provide affordable access to quality health care while promoting health and wellbeing.
Establish effective, safe and affordable public transport.
Produce sufficient energy to support industry at competitive prices, ensuring access for poor households, while reducing carbon emissions per unit of power by about one-third.
Ensure that all South Africans have access to clean running water in their homes.
Make high-speed broadband internet universally available at competitive prices.
Realise a food trade surplus, with one-third produced by small-scale farmers or households.
Ensure household food and nutrition security.
Entrench a social security system covering all working people, with social protection for the poor and other groups in need, such as children and people with disabilities.
Realise a developmental, capable and ethical state that treats citizens with dignity.
Ensure that all people live safely, with an independent and fair criminal justice system.
Broaden social cohesion and unity while redressing the inequities of the past.
Play a leading role in continental development, economic integration and human rights.
Critical actions
A social compact to reduce poverty and inequality, and raise employment and investment.
A strategy to address poverty and its impacts by broadening access to employment, strengthening the social wage, improving public transport and raising rural incomes.
Steps by the state to professionalise the public service, strengthen accountability, improve coordination and prosecute corruption.
Boost private investment in labour-intensive areas, competitiveness and exports, with adjustments to lower the risk of hiring younger workers.
An education accountability chain, with lines of responsibility from state to classroom.
Phase in national health insurance, with a focus on upgrading public health facilities, producing more health professionals and reducing the relative cost of private health care.
Public infrastructure investment at 10% of gross domestic product (GDP) financed through tariffs, public-private partnerships, taxes and loans and focused on transport, energy and water.
Interventions to ensure environmental sustainability and resilience to future shocks.
New spatial norms and standards – densifying cities, improving transport, locating jobs where people live, upgrading informal settlements and fixing housing market gaps.
Reduce crime by strengthening criminal justice and improving community environments.
STRATEGIC OUTCOMES
Economy and employment (Chapter 3)
Economic infrastructure (Chapter 4)
Environmental sustainability and resilience (Chapter 5)
Inclusive rural economy (Chapter 6)
South Africa in the region and the world (Chapter 7)
Transforming human settlements (Chapter 8)
Improving education, training and innovation (Chapter 9)
Health care for all (Chapter 10)
Social protection (Chapter 11)
Building safer communities (Chapter 12)
Building a capable and developmental state (Chapter 13)
Fighting Corruption (Chapter 14)
Nation building and social cohesion (Chapter 15)