Sona 2016

KEY

Yes

Maybe

Unlikely

Hopefully

Depends on
implementation

March 21 National day of anti-racism

Economic growth is vital; business a partner
Ratings downgrade?
SA remains an investment destination
One-stop shop / the invest in SA initiative (for second year)
Cutting red tape, and removing legislative and regulatory
blockages
Streamline state-owned enterprises
(mandates and total number)
Make us go on holiday more often in Mzansi
Visas for foreign workers
Black industrialists programme encourage big business to
partner
Improve or maintain top 10 ranking by World Economic
Forum for nancial services
Centre of excellence for nancial services and leadership
training
Cut number of overseas trips and delegations on them. Yes
(but with a ght)
Cut the cake (conferences, catering, entertainment and
social functions). Premiers / mayors to cut back on their
gravy trains too (there are elections coming up in 2016
and 2019)
One political capital
Maybe (over the long term)

Key issues from the nine-point plan

Stabilise electricity supply:
No load shedding since August 2015
R83 billion states investment in Eskom
R194 billion invested in independent power producers
9 600 megawatts potential nuclear energy
expansion
Let me emphasise that we will only procure
nuclear on a scale and pace that our country can
afford.
Industrial policy action plan:
R25 billion automotive sector investment after
incentives
Clothing and textile industry stabilised
Nestl, Unilever, Samsung and Hisense have made
SA their regional manufacturing hub
Agriculture as growth sector
Five agriparks started
Land
50-50 policy for joint ownership between farmers
and workers
27 proposals received from farmers and four ideas
being implemented in the Eastern Cape and Free State
Regulations of Land Holdings Bill bans foreign land
ownership and puts 12 000-hectare ceiling on farm size
Cabinet will receive it in rst semester
Water
Two water-augmentation projects in Limpopo
Raise Clanwilliam Dam wall by 13 metres
Mining
Sector stabilised Declaration to save jobs signed in
August 2015
Oceans economy
Port investments
Nine aquaculture farms
Other
Judicial inquiry into higher education appointed

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