Reconstruction and development programme  (Page 2/3)

a) EDUCATION AND TRAINING, in which equal opportunities were to be made available to all, independent of race, colour, gender, language, age, religion, geographical background, political or other orientation, so that the necessary knowledge and skills can be developed to provide quality products and improved quality of life for all.

b) ART AND CULTURE that would promote freedom of expression and creativity so that all might gain access to resources and facilities to be able to satisfy their need for artistic and cultural expression and literacy and escape the cultural impoverishment of the past.

c) SPORT AND RECREATION that would promote representative participation and full availability of facilities and training from grassroots level.

d) YOUTH DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMMES that would focus on education, training and job creation to empower the youth to attain their full potential for participating in their communities.

Activity 2: development of human resources

Discuss and do research on successes that have been achieved in the above programmes since 1994. Also evaluate the shortcomings of the programmes and the reasons for failure to realise objectives. NB : Evaluate conditions in your immediate environment.

• Prepare a thorough presentation so that you can report your findings to the class for discussion of each aspect. The written presentation should be presented in folio format and a summary must be presented:

3. The THIRD PROGRAMME was to focus on the development of ThE economy, so that strengths, such a mining, manufacturing, agriculture, commercial and financial services and the well-developed infrastructure could be utilised to benefit everyone with regard to:

a) INTEGRATION OF RECONSTRUCTION AND DEVELOPMENT, with the aim of having the public sector playing a leading role in development planning, because it was expected that

the market mechanism by itself would not be able to make the structural adjustment benefit the wider population.

b) MANUFACTURING, TRADE AND INDUSTRY which attempts to utilise public sector and government interests and support to enhance investment possibilities, in particular with regard to manufacturing, job creation and satisfaction of basic needs

c) RESOURCE-BASED INDUSTRIES like mining, agriculture, fisheries and forestry which were previously dominated by the white minority, are to be utilised to the advantage of the whole population in terms of ownership, job creation and empowerment.

d) UPGRADING OF INFRASTRUCTURE, like electricity, telecommunication and transport, so that this will lead to improved satisfaction of basic needs, as well as new and effective economic activity.

e) REFORM OF THE FINANCIAL SECTOR, which, at present, is centred in a number of dominant financial groups, so that the aspirations of new sectors of the economy and the needs of informal and micro-enterprises can be met satisfactorily.

f) LABOUR AND WORKER RIGHTS that would ensure that organised labour is empowered to effective as a force in the reconstruction and development of the country.