PRIORITY
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• Prioritise industrial sectors that are labour intensive.
Build our industries to achieve an
inclusive economy, To transform our
• Continue to cultivate partnerships to expand domestic
industries with significant potential to create sustainable jobs
economy, government needs to drive industrial
such as mining (including artisanal and small-scale mining),
growth, innovation and job creation.
agriculture, energy, manufacturing, pharmaceuticals and
medical equipment, the green and blue economies, tourism,
the creative sector and the digital economy.
This involves targeted strategies to revitalise
• Ensure alignment and coordination across all national
and diversify the manufacturing sector, foster
departments and provincial and local governments for the
a more inclusive and robust national and
implementation of sectoral master plans and Industrial Policy
Action Plans.
African market, skill and reskill workers and
meet the new global challenge of climate
• Implement export taxes on essential raw materials like
cobalt, lithium, graphite, chromite, manganese and platinum
change. A just transition to a cleaner, greener
to encourage local value addition, particularly for low-
future can lead to new jobs and secure the
carbon production.
competitiveness of our exports.
• More effectively use provisions in the Constitution and
expropriation legislation to accelerate land reform and
redistribution to reduce asset inequality and protect security
THE ANC WILL:
of tenure, improve food security and agricultural production,
promote rural and urban development and enable greater
• Consolidate industrial and sectoral master plans into a
access to housing.
comprehensive industrial policy to drive localisation.
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