The National Development Plan (NDP) offers a long-term perspective to the future of South Africa. It defines a desired destination and identifies the role different sectors of society need to play in reaching that goal.

Hashtag South Africa was formed out of the National Development Plan 2030. Founder and CEO – Conrad Travis David assessed the problems of South Africa and developed an action plan from a citizen level with the use of Social Media, Cloud Computing, Web Development, Fibre Communication and Mobile App Development.

 

As a citizen of South Africa, I cannot stand back and expect my government to deliver a future for my children’s children alone. The development of South Africa is as much my responsibility as it is my governments.

Conrad Travis David, CEO and Founder Hashtag South Africa

We have identified the 9  Areas as part of National Development Plan 2030 and set our course to the Year 2030 where we will review on our action projects – and perfect our model each year so that by the year 2030 the relay of our race can continue as we form the foundation for generations.

The following is Government’s plan ( we leave this here so businesses will make it their goal to fuse business models to incorporate the National Development Pan 2030)

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Create Jobs

Create 11 million more jobs by 2030:
• Expand the public works programme
• Lower the cost of doing business and costs for households
• Help match unemployed workers to jobs
• Provide tax subsidy to businesses to reduce cost of hiring
young people
• Help employers and unions agree on starting salaries
• Make it possible for very skilled immigrants to work in South
Africa
• Make sure that probationary periods are managed
properly
• Simplify dismissal procedures for performance or
misconduct
• Take managers earning above R300 000 out of the CCMA
process
• Reward the setting up of new businesses, including
partnering with companies
• Increase value for money for tourists by selling regional
packages that meet all pocket sizes. Consider a single visa
for SADC visitors
• Deal with confusion over policies to do with transport, water,
energy, labour and communications

Expand Infrastructure

Invest in a new heavy-haul rail corridor to the Waterberg coal field
and upgrade the central basin coal network
• Enable exploratory drilling to see whether there are viable coal
seam and shale gas reserves, while investigations continue to
make sure that operations do not damage the environment
• Move Eskom’s system operator, planning, power procurement,
power purchasing and power contracting functions to the
independent system and market operator
• Closely regulate the electricity maintenance plans of large cities
• Set up an investment programme for water resource
development, bulk water supply and wastewater management
this year, with reviews every five years
• Fix and build transport links, in these key areas:
• Upgrade the Durban-Gauteng freight corridor and build a
new port at the old Durban airport site
• Expand the coal, iron ore and manganese lines. Build the N2
road through the Eastern Cape
• Upgrade the Sishen to Saldanha iron ore line and expand
capacity on the manganese line (including port capacity)
• Improve and cut the cost of internet broadband by changing
the regulatory framework

Transition to a Low Carbon Economy  

Speed up and expand renewable energy and waste recycling,
and ensure buildings meet energy-efficient standards
• Set a target of 5 million solar water heaters by 2030
• Introduce a carbon tax
• Scale up investments and R&D for new technologies

Transform Urban and Rural Spaces

Stop building houses on poorly located land and shift more
resources to upgrading informal settlements, provided that
they are in areas close to jobs
• Improve public transport
• Give businesses incentives to move jobs to townships
• Fix the gap in the housing market by combining what banks
have to offer with subsidies as well as employer housing
schemes
• Give communal farmers, especially women, security of
tenure
• Put money into irrigation in Makatini Flats and Umzimvubu
River Basin

Education and Training

Develop a nutrition programme for pregnant women and young
children, to be piloted by the Department of Health for two years
• Make sure all children have two years of pre-school
• Get rid of union and political interference in appointments and
appoint only qualified people
• Increase teacher training output by expanding “Funza Lushaka”
to attract learners into teaching, especially those with good
passes in maths, science and languages
• Regularly test teachers in the subjects they teach to determine
level of knowledge and competence. Link teacher pay to learner
performance improvements
• Good schools should not be burdened with the paperwork
that poor performing schools have to do to improve. Schools
performing very poorly should receive the closest attention
• Change the process of appointment of principals and set
minimum qualifications
• Gradually give principals more powers to run schools, including
financial management, procurement of textbooks and other
educational material, as well as hiring and firing educators
• Increase the number of university graduates and the number of
people doing their doctorates
• Build two new universities in Mpumalanga and the Northern
Cape
• Build a new medical school in Limpopo and a number of new
academic hospitals
• Consider extending the length of first degrees to four years on a
voluntary basis
• Provide full funding assistance covering tuition, books,
accommodation and living allowance (in the form of loans and
bursaries) to deserving students
• Grant seven-year work permits to all foreigners who graduate
from a registered South African university

Provide Quality Health Care

Broaden coverage of antiretroviral treatment to all HIV-positive
people
• Speed up training of community specialists in medicine,
surgery including anaesthetics, obstetrics, paediatrics and
psychiatry
• Recruit, train and deploy between 700 000 and 1.3 million
community health workers to implement community-based
health care
• Set minimum qualifications for hospital managers and ensure
that all managers have the necessary qualifications
• Implement national health insurance in a phased manner
• Promote active lifestyles and balanced diets, control alcohol
abuse and health awareness to reduce non-communicable
diseases

Build a Capable State

Fix the relationship between political parties and government
officials
• Make the public service a career of choice
• Improve relations between national, provincial and local
government
• Boost state-owned enterprises to help build the country
• Professionalise the police and criminal justice system

Fight Corruption

Centralise the awarding of large tenders or tenders that go for a
long time
• Take political and legal steps to stop political interference in
agencies fighting corruption
• Set up dedicated prosecution teams, specialist courts and
judges
• Make it illegal for civil servants to run or benefit directly from
certain types of business activity

Transformation and Unity

The Bill of Responsibility, developed by the Department of Basic
Education and others, should be popularised and used as a
pledge by all South Africans to live the values of the Constitution
• Encourage all South Africans to learn at least one African
language
• Employment equity and other redress measures should continue
and be made more effective