OVER THE NEXT FIVE YEARS, THE ANC WILL: • Implement a national youth plan to tackle drug and
substance abuse, embracing prevention and education in
• Address the crisis of young people not in employment, schools and communities, counselling, treatment and
education or training through increased efforts to reduce the support. There will be stricter monitoring of underage
number of learners who do not finish school and providing drinking and taverns near schools, recreation programmes
second chance opportunities to pass matric through and peer-led interventions and law enforcement to clamp
community and TVET colleges. down on the flooding of communities with illegal drugs.
• Prioritise young people in public and other work • Strengthen youth health services, including access to sanitary
programmes, work-based learning programmes, artisan towels for girls and young women, including making them
training and entrepreneurship programmes. available in schools, universities and other public spaces.
• Expand and institutionalise the National Youth Service in
partnership with the SANDF, Expanding to provide skills and
meet basic needs in communities, targeting intake of
100,000 young men and women.
• Working together with young people, their organisations
and institutions, with families and sectoral formations, to
tackle bullying, teenage pregnancy, crime, homophobia,
gangsterism, gender-based violence, sexually transmitted
infections and HIV/AIDS.
• Increase enrolment and graduation of students in
universities, TVET colleges and community education and
training colleges, particularly for African and coloured
students and students with disabilities.
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