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Manifestos and policy search
Search the manifestos parties published for the 2024 elections and find the passage and the page. Results are the parties’ own text. Mandate SA does not summarise a manifesto or say what a party stands for beyond what its document says.
44 passages for “water”
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- ACTIONSA: ActionSA National Manifesto 2024, page 41
educational institutions. We will also invest in broadband internet access for all learners and ensure that all schoolshave running water and electricity
- ACTIONSA: ActionSA National Manifesto 2024, page 69
first. ActionSA will set minimum acceptable turnaround times for the resolution of service delivery issues, like pothole repairs and water leaks. We will hold officials and departments accountable for non-performance. Decentralise service delivery: Citizens are best served
- AFRICAN CHRISTIAN DEMOCRATIC PARTY: ACDP Manifesto 2024, page 3
Crime and justice 8 Property rights, rural development and food security 9 Access to housing 9 Access to clean water and sanitation 10 Education and skills development 10 Health and well-being 11 On Israel 12 Protecting and promoting your
- AFRICAN CHRISTIAN DEMOCRATIC PARTY: ACDP Manifesto 2024, page 9
races, and not, as the government wants to do, take away large amounts of land – and now also water – from experienced farmers and give it to mainly subsistence producers. ACCESS TO HOUSING The ACDP is committed to protecting and extending
- AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS: ANC 2024 Elections Manifesto: Let's do more, together, page 3
PRIORITY 4. Invest in people. 33 Ensure local government delivers Provide clean water for all Improve public transport and roads Improve education and skills Ensure health care for all Use science and innovation for development Build more houses and provide
- AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS: ANC 2024 Elections Manifesto: Let's do more, together, page 11
support for community and home gardens. We will act against price fixing. • Maintain and expand subsidised basic services like water, houses for the poor and indigent policies in municipalities. • Strengthen health services and implement the National Health Insurance
- AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS: ANC 2024 Elections Manifesto: Let's do more, together, page 23
well and create more jobs over 500,000 workers. • Driven large-scale projects across the country, such as bulk water resources, road construction and human settlements
- AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS: ANC 2024 Elections Manifesto: Let's do more, together, page 28
needs that more energy, including from renewable sources, can be and support job creation and industrialisation. supplied. • Install solar water geysers in working class and poor Invest in infrastructure Investing in households to support job creation and local manufacturing. infrastructure
- AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS: ANC 2024 Elections Manifesto: Let's do more, together, page 34
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
- AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS: ANC 2024 Elections Manifesto: Let's do more, together, page 46
included and has the opportunity fix potholes, remove refuse regularly, keep communities to thrive. clean and green, provide clean water and sanitation. • Increase infrastructure maintenance funding and human resources. Over the next five years, the ANC will: • Implement long-term
- DEMOCRATIC ALLIANCE: The DA's Rescue Plan for South Africa: Election Manifesto 2024, page 2
will rescue South Africans from unemployment 10 The DA will rescue South Africa from the energy and water crisis 14 The DA will rescue South Africans from crime, corruption and lawlessness 20 The DA will rescue South Africa from cadre
- DEMOCRATIC ALLIANCE: The DA's Rescue Plan for South Africa: Election Manifesto 2024, page 4
during the 2024-2029 term will be to: 1. create two million new jobs; 2. end load-shedding and water shedding; 3. halve the rate of violent crime – including murder, attempted murder and gender-based violence; 4. abolish cadre deployment
- DEMOCRATIC ALLIANCE: The DA's Rescue Plan for South Africa: Election Manifesto 2024, page 6
Create two million new jobs 2. End load-shedding and water-shedding 3. Halve the rate of violent crime, including murder, attempted murder, and gender-based violence 4. Abolish cadre deployment in favour of merit-based appointments and a capable
- DEMOCRATIC ALLIANCE: The DA's Rescue Plan for South Africa: Election Manifesto 2024, page 8
supply, crime is out of control, too many children cannot read and write at the required level, there are water shortages all over the country, our ports are failing, and our towns and cities are in decay. These problems have
- DEMOCRATIC ALLIANCE: The DA's Rescue Plan for South Africa: Election Manifesto 2024, page 13
formation from 14% to 30% of GDP. The DA will harness public-private partnerships to strengthen crucial energy, communication, water, and transport infrastructure. This strategy is designed to spark industrial expansion and attract investment. • Implementing industrial and competition policy that
- DEMOCRATIC ALLIANCE: The DA's Rescue Plan for South Africa: Election Manifesto 2024, page 14
will rescue South Africa from the energy and water crisis
- DEMOCRATIC ALLIANCE: The DA's Rescue Plan for South Africa: Election Manifesto 2024, page 27
areas where people reside in sub-standard conditions characterised by insecurity and inadequate access to basic services such as water, electricity, sanitation, education, healthcare, public safety, road infrastructure and public transport
- DEMOCRATIC ALLIANCE: The DA's Rescue Plan for South Africa: Election Manifesto 2024, page 29
state which lacks the skills and capacity to provide the basic services we all rely on to survive, including water, electricity, housing, and transportation. Replacing cadre deployment with a skilled public sector is a fundamental prerequisite to address these issues
- INKATHA FREEDOM PARTY: Inkatha Freedom Party 2024 Manifesto, page 9
reduce small business failures and create meaningful jobs. • Empower provinces, districts and municipalities to support agricultural growth through infrastructure, water schemes, education and financing. • Introduce a Local Economic Development Grant to support rural and township business cooperatives
- INKATHA FREEDOM PARTY: Inkatha Freedom Party 2024 Manifesto, page 15
energy remains part of the mix, in the hands of the State. • Support hydroelectric power generation, efficiently utilising the water resources of the country. The benefits must be explored, researched, developed and made available to local communities and companies. Local
Manifestos on the record
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Not on the record
- Economic Freedom Fighters (2024): the party's website refused the download (HTTP 403); no third-party copy is used.
- Build One South Africa (2024): the party's file host refused the download (HTTP 403); no third-party copy is used.
- Patriotic Alliance (2024): no copy found on the party's own website; a third-party copy exists and is not used.
- MK Party (2024): the full manifesto PDF is image-only and could not be searched (no OCR was run); the party's web summary is searchable.