Services
Welfare
Our communities are struggling and our people are hungry. The COVID-19 Pandemic has placed extreme circumstances on the most vulnerable in our communities. The poor, the destitute and our elderly citizens have a daily struggle to survive.
- Support and increase to the elderly.
- Work with community forums, sector policing forums to identify the most needy.
- Work with governmental structures to ensure that relief meant for the needy gets to the needy and is not squandered.
- Create empowerment/skills development programs.
- Promotion of feeding schemes within communities and schools.
- Word with NGO's to ensure correct allocation of relief.
Economic Growth
The severe job shortage, lack of opportunities and escalating unemployment has been exasperated by the COVID - 19 pandemic, rioting and looting within KZN. Skills development and new marketplaces need to be accelerated to empower the poor and needy.
- Skills development for unemployed youth.
- Work with skills development centers and businesses to increase employment rates.
- Creation of new marketplaces for the sale of organic/ home made goods.
- SMME development and local economic development.
- Encouraging foreign direct investment that is needed in specific sectors.
-More efficient and transparent local government fiscal management.
- Implement a "study as you earn" program
Safety and Security
Crime is rampant within our communities. Given the corruption, and the inability to mobilize effectively during the recent looting, the communities of KZN have lost faith in ability of SAPS to serve and protect. An unintended consequence has been that local communities are now more vigilant and have created structures for their protection.
- Initiate community structures and SAPS discussions for a holistic approach to improve policing and reduce crime.
- Work with the SAPS to ensure that the criminal syndicates who are destroying our communities are prosecuted.
- Work with the SAPS to ensure that the criminal syndicates who are destroying our communities are prosecuted.
- The creation of specialized courts and specialized police units to deal with corruption, sexual and gender-based violence, gangs and drugs.
Reprioritizing the SAPS budget in areas such as public order and visible policing in order to improve accessibility to the police.
- Working with all sectors to end violence against women and children.
- Involving traditional leaders in crime fighting efforts in rural communities.
Education
Crime is rampant within our communities. Given the corruption, and the inability to mobilize effectively during the recent looting, the communities of KZN have lost faith in ability of SAPS to serve and protect. An unintended consequence has been that local communities are now more vigilant and have created structures for their protection.
- Free, quality early education childhood development, primary secondary and higher education and training for all our people.
- re-evaluate and capacitate rural and township schools that were previously closed, due to non-viability or non-performance.
- Better pay and better working conditions for all teachers, including grade R teachers.
- Reopening teacher training colleges.
- Regular maintenance and additional school infrastructure for development - including sport, libraries and facilities for the arts.
- Regular maintenance and additional school infrastructure for development - including sport, libraries and facilities for the arts.
- Provide security at all schools.
- Provide security at all schools.
- Provide adequate facilities and support for learners with special needs.
- Enforce discipline in schools.
Health
Our healthcare facilities have recently been tested at extreme levels and they have fallen short. The extent of decay in infrastructure was brought to the fore and again, the most vulnerable in our communities are the ones that are the most affected by the lack of maintenance and mismanagement of funds.
- Maintenance of existing health infrastructure.
- Reduce the high cost of medicine for all South Africans.
- Additional capacity for the training of more South African medical professionals.
- Increase accessibility for complimentary and traditional medicines.
- Improve working conditions for all health care workers.
- Encourage greater support for NGO's and NPO's
- Using community centers as exercise centers for the old and poor.
