1) Create long-term planning, integration and coordination capacity within the state to drive consolidated industrialisation and infrastructure development programmes for inclusive growth and job creation.
2) Consolidate the public works programme, creating 6 million work opportunities by 2019. Many of which will be of a long duration.
3) Investigate the introduction of a national minimum wage as one of the key mechanisms to reduce income inequality.

The right combination of policies – all championed by the DA – could see the economy add 6 million real jobs in ten years, over and above temporary expanded public works placements.

Invest in innovation necessary to turn our society from consumers into manufacturers.

Partner with the mining and related sectors to refine raw materials in South Africa and build our processing and manufacturing industries.

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Exploring the privatisation of uncompetitive state-owned enterprises. Strengthening competition authorities and increasing their budgets in order to counteract anticompetitive behaviour by Big Business "insiders".

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Accelerate the roll-out of our massive economic and social infrastructure programme especially in energy, public transport, ICT and water supply to unlock economic opportunities, create jobs and improve the quality of life of people.

Scaling up the Expanded Public Works Programme (EPWP) to create seven million work opportunities over the next five years and deliver 2.5 million work opportunities per year by 2025. These programmes will include a training component to prepare participants for a permanent career.

Support the growth of agriculture, manufacturing and mining which are seriously under-performing at the moment will be given encouragement and assistance to increase production and expand employment.

Establish Special Economic Zones (SEZs), particularly in rural areas, to help communities become self-sustainable and create tax incentives and low tax investment zones in these areas to stimulate growth, jobs and development.

Continue to increase support for small enterprises and co-operatives through the newly consolidated public agencies offering start-ups, small enterprises and social enterprises coaching, incubation, intensive support and financing.

Establishing Opportunity Centres, which will serve as one-stop shops for small businesses and as a central node for young job-seekers and entrepreneurs to access support.

Ensure that small, medium and micro enterprises enjoy increased support from government making it easier, not more diffi cult, to start and run a small business. Affordable loans will enable start-up enterprises, with mentoring support to make sure small businesses succeed.

Create a mentorship programme through which local and international business people can help young business owners learn to manage and grow sustainable ventures.

Continue to invest more in rural development through the further implementation of the Comprehensive Rural Development Programme, which focuses primarily on the provision of social and economic rural infrastructure.

Invest in training and education for agriculture – particularly the training of extension officers that can support small and large-scale commercial farmers and advise on initiatives to improve rural livelihoods through subsistence farming.

Invest resources and provide adequate support to existing and legitimate aspiring farmers, as well as qualifying new entrants to farming.

Encourage new and current farmers to grow cash crops for export.

Continue to roll out existing social grants to those who qualify.

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Will continue to improve governance and administration of FET colleges and adopt quality assurance measures, especially relating to curricula and training.

Allowing students studying towards qualifications in identified areas, where the public service is in need of skills, to repay public loans through public service.

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Focus on developing skills suitable for today’s job market by funding training programmes, apprenticeships and learnerships.

Reforms in skills development to ensure employers and labour - in partnership with learning institutions - carry out more technical and artisanal training.

Allowing students studying towards qualifications in identified areas, where the public service is in need of skills, to repay public loans through public service.

Introduce a multi-disciplinary skills-based performance competency for all learners. Work ethic is another area where our education system is failing learners. Skills and competencies can be included in the Life Orientation / Life Skills curriculum to provide a learning curriculum.

Focus on developing skills suitable for today’s job market by funding training programmes, apprenticeships and learnerships.

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Establish Opportunity Centres where small businesses can access support and conduct all their business with government. Roll out small business incubators where small businesses can share resources and have a supportive environment in which to find their feet.

Ensure that small, medium and micro enterprises enjoy increased support from government making it easier, not more diffi cult, to start and run a small business.

Support sustainable small and medium sized businesses (SMMEs) and reward them for employing and training women, youth and those who are differently abled.

1) Take steps to strengthen existing laws to ensure faster change in employment equity in all workplaces by enforcing an accelerated implementation of employment equity targets.
2) Enforce measures to eliminate abusive work practises in atypical work and labour broking.
3) Take steps to ensure that collective bargaining takes place in all sectors of the economy.

The DA strongly supports the rights of workers to organise and the right to collective bargaining. DA does not, however, support any abuse of power by entrenched labour unions that perpetuates the divide between economic insiders and outsiders, and shields the employed at too great a cost to the unemployed.

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Take politics out of the economy – union politics should not hold our economic future ransom.

Take steps to strengthen existing laws to ensure faster change in employment equity in all workplaces by enforcing an accelerated implementation of employment equity targets.

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Investigate the modality for the introduction of a national minimum wage as one of the key mechanisms to reduce income inequality.

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1) No clear policy mentioned (A comprehensive package of economic, social and legal measures to be proposed to protect workers, labour rights and interests.)
2) Social security and retirement benefits to be extended to support parents in old age.

The DA believes that social spending should be focused on the disadvantaged and that such spending should improve the life chances of individuals born into poverty. The DA also believes that citizens are capable of taking responsibility for their own destiny and should be viewed as partners rather than “subjects” in development.

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Old age benefits along with health care insurance and disability pension to be provided to employees in public & private sectors.

Establish a National Health Insurance fund.

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Providing greater protection for workers and employers in the informal sector.

Providing safe trading spaces for informal traders. Developing a Code of Good Practice on engagement with informal traders with a specific focus on developing common ethics, values and policy guidelines for interactions with informal traders.

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Continue to invest more in rural development through the further implementation of the Comprehensive Rural Development Programme, which focuses primarily on the provision of social and economic rural infrastructure.

Expand investment in research and development for agriculture and ensure that national research institutions serve the needs of the sector.

Rural areas will be supported to create niche markets and take advantage of the growth of tourism to South Africa.

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Increase the supply of social service professionals, specifically social workers, auxiliary or assistant social workers, community development workers, and child and youth care workers.

The DA is strongly committed to providing a social safety net to vulnerable citizens and protecting all South Africans from extreme poverty and hunger.

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Work towards the introduction of mandatory cover for retirement, disability and survivor benefits.

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Support sustainable small and medium sized businesses (SMMEs) and reward them for employing and training women, youth and those who are differently abled.

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We will implement the African Union-inspired Campaign on Accelerated Reduction of Maternal and Child Mortality in Africa (CARMMA). This will place mother and children, over five years, at the centre of our health care programmes. Especially at primarily health care level.

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Ensure more empowered, educated and employed youth. Provide job placements and internships schemes for youth. Increase the number of young people in public works schemes.

The comprehensive roll-out of a real, strong youth wage subsidy programme to encourage the appointment of young work seekers. This subsidy could benefit 423 000 young people in the first three years of implementation.

Strengthen youth service programmes and introduce community-based programmes to offer young people, especially marginalised young people, life-skills training, entrepreneurship training, along with opportunities to participate in community development programmes.

Provide better opportunities for school leavers to find jobs by funding more apprenticeships, especially for those from rural areas and townships.

Step up education and training opportunities for youth.

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Provide for artisan programmes to be included in the curriculum. Embark on a national literacy campaign.

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Step up education and training opportunities for youth.

Actively encouraging apprenticeship programmes by reimbursing employers for training costs and involving businesses more directly in designing work-based training.

Provide for artisan programmes to be included in the curriculum. Embark on a national literacy campaign.

Support FET institutions by helping skilled technicians learn to teach their craft.

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Establish Opportunity Centres where small businesses can access support and conduct all their business with government. Roll out small business incubators where small businesses can share resources and have a supportive environment in which to find their feet.

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Reinstate the Narcotics Bureau. Create a public-private partnership to fight drugs and crime. Make use of random drug testing in schools where appropriate.

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Training in disaster management to be provided to volunteers.

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Actively promote school and student sport as a mechanism to develop healthy lifestyles among the youth, to discourage anti-social behaviour and to develop a pipeline of sporting talent for national teams.

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Introducing a government internship programme across all departments, based on the highly successful Western Cape model. The programme will provide internship opportunities for at least 18 000 young people and help them to gain the knowledge and skills they will need in the world of work.

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The ANC is committed to the progressive realisation of free education at all levels. We have made progress in achieving universal access to quality basic education, but we need to work harder to ensure introduction of free education in higher education and training.

Quality education is key to improving quality of life. It empowers individuals to obtain a fulfilling job, contribute to the economy and utilise their talents to the full.

South Africans deserve a government that that ensures an overarching system of world class education.

Our education system needs to be overhauled to meet world standards. South Africa’s future socio-economic stability and growth depends on a system that prioritises trained teachers, proper educational facilities and quality results.

We will work towards realising two years of compulsory pre-school education and strive for fuller integration of Grade R educators in the post and remuneration structure.

Getting a good start: Establishing formal Grade R classes at every public primary school, with shared classes being used where learner numbers do not allow for a full post of a Grade R teacher.

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Build 1,000 new schools to expand access to education and respond to the challenges of rural schooling and urban population growth.

Better together: encourage the sharing of facilities between schools and between schools and communities, where some schools and communities are much better resourced than others.

Lower the ratio of learners to teachers. This will improve the quality of education and also create more jobs for teachers.

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ANC will work towards realising two years of compulsory pre-school education and strive for fuller integration of Grade R educators in the post and remuneration structure.

Better resources: proper planning and infrastructure spending to ensure that every school has basic resources and services such as safe classrooms, water, electricity, sanitation, libraries, laboratories and information technology that can enhance learning.

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Spend the Department of Education’s budget honestly and effectively so that each school has textbooks, water, toilets, electricity, a library and a laboratory. This means implementing the law to vet and monitor all tender procedures and to prosecute those suspected of corruption.

A phased-approach to the introduction of compulsory African languages in schools will be adopted. We will continue to promote sports, arts, heritage and culture at our schools.

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Increase the minimum pass rate across all grades and support the enforcement of common certification. Currently, the pass rate of 30% is too low and does not adequately equip learners for future success.

Support each principal’s efforts to hold their teachers accountable and manage their schools honestly and efficiently. Promote inclusive education to cater for the differently abled.

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Better curricula: align education outcomes with workplace needs by regularly reviewing the curriculum to ensure that it equips learners for participation in a competitive, modern economy.

Set up communication platforms to identify and develop marketable skills. This will ensure that the education system is responsive to the needs of the economy.

Re-focus the curriculum to concentrate on quality and to motivate teachers and children to learn to think and challenge themselves. Standards must be raised.

Enrol more than one million students in FET colleges in 2014, and enrol an additional 500,000 students in the next five years. Continue to improve governance and administration of FET colleges and adopt quality assurance measures, especially relating to curricula and training.

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Re-open teacher training colleges and FETs with special emphasis on critical subjects. Urgent intervention is needed in maths and science, where South Africa ranks second-last in global standings.

Provide better opportunities for school-leavers to find jobs by funding more apprenticeships, especially for those from rural areas and townships.