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GNU DEVELOPMENT PLAN IMPLEMENTATION ‘HAMPERED’ BY CAPACITY CONSTRAINTS – MINISTER
- 23 January 2026
- Presidency
- SA Legal Academy
Progress with implementing the Government of National Unity’s medium-term development plan (MTDP) ‘tends to be hampered by several challenges that include capacity constraints’. This is according to Minister in the Presidency for Planning, Monitoring & Evaluation, Maropene Ramokgopa, whose recent statement on MTDP 2024-2029 achievements since its adoption also refers to myriad ‘challenges’ including:
- uneven performance across sectors and regions (drawing particular attention to ‘uneven digital capacity across government departments and spheres of government’)
- ‘procurement inefficiencies’ and ‘inadequate project preparation’ at municipal level
- ‘high municipal debt levels’
- electricity ‘grid expansion delays’
- ‘cybersecurity, data governance and digital skills gaps’
- ‘subdued’ business confidence (attributed to ‘logistics constraints and energy costs’)
- ‘constrained’ investment levels
- inadequate ‘investment facilitation capacity’, and
- global economic pressures.
In the context of capacity constraints, the statement mentions:
- municipal planning, project management and engineering skills, as well as
- ‘parts of the criminal justice system’.
Cabinet adopted the plan on 25 February 2025 – as a ‘blueprint’ for the work of South Africa’s seventh post-1994 administration.
Informed by an ‘assessment review’ conducted between April and September 2025, the statement notes the ‘clear improvements (made in) energy stability, tourism recovery, industrial growth and social protection’. This notwithstanding:
- ‘extremely high’ youth unemployment (58.5%) points to ‘deep structural labour market challenges’
- ‘poverty and inequality remain entrenched’, and
- the level of violent crime is described as ‘persistent’,
According to the Minister’s statement, there is ongoing ‘concern’ about ‘declining mathematics enrolment in schools’.
- Minister’s statement
- MTDP 2024-2029
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