Dlamini-Zuma says best way to implement NDP is in bite-sized chunks
The NDP was adopted in 2012, and called for unemployment to fall to 6% and sustained growth of 5.4% to be achieved by 2030
The national development plan (NDP) — SA's blueprint to eliminate poverty and reduce inequality by 2030 — will be broken up into smaller plans that will be dealt with in five-year time frames. “We will break the NDP into smaller chunks of five years instead of just implementing the entire NDP. We will outline the things we want to achieve over each five-year period,” minister in the presidency for planning, monitoring and evaluation Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma said at the fourth NDP lecture, at Unisa's Pretoria campus on Thursday. The implementation of this will begin in 2019. “The planning laws are scattered so we need a lot of co-operation from every department. This won’t happen at the start of next year.” A skills deficit, infrastructure gaps and a lack of transformation in the financial services sector are the biggest barriers to radical socioeconomic transformation, she said. “The presence of infrastructure facilitates economic growth, but its absence inhibits it. We need to look s...
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