(Parliamentary debate: Implementing the National Development Plan (NDP) in phases to ensure efficient monitoring and evaluation of its targets measured against the Medium Term Strategic Framework)
The National Development Plan is generally seen and accepted as a meaningful plan that will help South Africa move forward – if it is implemented correctly. The reality, however, is that the economy is declining, moral decay is at the order of the day and crime is out of control.
The ANC has allowed the NDP dream to turn into a nightmare.
Despite the creation of the NDP, South Africa is staring down the abyss of junk status and social implosion. The reality foisted upon us by the ANC is nothing but a nightmare that people have to endure day after day.
Even though there exists consensus that the NDP can lead this country down the right path – not perfectly, but generally so – the very document itself is shrouded in controversy. The ANC only quotes the NDP when it suits them and then it relies on numerous other sources that often contradict the NDP in an attempt to try and justify its policies.
Examples include the Freedom Charter that has no legal status, the Department of Trade and Industry's Industrial Policy Action Plan and several of the Department of Economic Development's plans.
There are so many plans that one cannot help but wonder where policy certainty and rationality will come from.
On top of that, the decisions taken at the ANC Conferences are now considered as the highest authority, particularly with regard to the ludicrous policy of expropriation without compensation which is being imposed on the people of South Africa even though it does not feature in the NDP.
The time has come to realise that the NDP is dead and that the ANC is merely creating policies on a tactical level for the sake of its own survival and not for the benefit of the country.
From now on, the country will only see reactive policy formation by a party that is trying to delay its inevitable demise. The evidence of this is overwhelming:
The ANC wants everyone to believe that the grass is greener on its side. It reminds one of the beloved character in the Afrikaans series “Koöperasie Stories”, Mr Genis, who uttered the following truism in Afrikaans: “The grass is only greener on the other side because there is much more manure.”
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