10 things the DA says it will do in its first 100 days in charge of SA

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10 things the DA says it will do in its first 100 days in charge of SA
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If you've ever wondered what life under President Mmusi Maimane might be like, wonder no more.

These are their immediate proposed interventions:Immediately place SAA under business rescue;Introduce specialist Teacher Training Colleges and a National Education Inspectorate to ensure that teaching and other standards are met;Begin to implement a 6-point Small Business Development Plan;Initiate key interventions to professionalise the police force, including the provincial control of police;Decentralise control of ports, harbours and Metrorail services and their budgets to metro councils.

A DA-led national government will stabilise our national debt by tabling and passing the Fiscal Responsibility Bill which introduces fiscal spending rules that mitigate against the debt-to-GDP ratio spiralling out of control by implementing a debt ceiling set at 60% of debt-to-GDP. Under our model, the Finance Minister will be required to report to Parliament for compliance with the new fiscal spending rules and prohibit government guarantees to SOEs from increasing as a percentage of GDP.

Three streams the programme will pilot are an education stream for teacher’s assistants, a healthcare stream aimed at providing public hospitals and clinics with administrative assistants, a police academy stream where participants join police academies across the country and members of local law enforcement on daily patrols.

Within our first 100 days, we would pass a Special Appropriations Bill that would increase the child grant to the food poverty line of R547 per month as at April 2018 prices. This would go a long way in ensuring mothers can feed their children.In June last year, the Small Business Project and Institute published that although Small and Medium Enterprises constitute as much as 98.

This will stimulate foreign direct investment and partnerships, give the “little guy” more of a voice over big businesses, speed up business registration, simplify investment regulations and application processes for informal trading, and encourage entrepreneurship as a career choice.For government to be more responsive, transparent, accountable and efficient to the needs and services of the people it serves, the shape and function of government must change from the top down.

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