PRIORITY
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REDUCE THE COST OF LIVING
Tackle the high cost of living, We will
continue the war on poverty by providing
THE ANC WILL:
comprehensive social security and basic
• Lower the cost of food through VAT exemption on essential
services and addressing the impact of rising
items, support food security through land reform, support for
community and home gardens, and act against price fixing.
prices on households.
• Ensure basic services are affordable by maintaining and
ex panding subsidised basic services like water, houses and
STRENGTHEN COMPREHENSIVE SOCIAL SECURITY
electricity for the poor. We will develop more subsidised
human settlements.
THE ANC WILL:
• Implement the National Health Insurance to reduce the cost
• Strengthen our comprehensive social security system to of medical care, especially for the poor.
reduce poverty, vulnerability, social exclusion and inequality
• Reduce energy bills by promoting cheaper or subsidised solar
through social assistance.
power.
• Prevent vulnerability and destitution as a result of the loss of
• Introduce measures to regulate rental prices for student ac
income through social insurance for workers.
commodation.
• Progressively implement a basic income support grant by ex
• Increase affordable rail and other commuter transport.
tending and improving the value and coverage of the SRD
grant for the unemployed.
• Ensure the National Minimum Wage increases in line with
inflation and ensure compliance.
• Protect the value of social grants for children, the elderly and
persons with disability.
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