Highway or byway? The National Development Plan 2030

Date: 2013-08-14

Time: 10:00 to 12:30

Venue: Conference Room , ISS Pretoria

RSVP: Sarah Malefo
Phone: +27 12 346 9500
Email: [email protected]

The implementation of South Africa’s National Development Plan 2030 is crucial. Without narrowing the huge gap between rich and poor, South Africa’s stability will be at risk as structural unemployment and inequality, already among the highest in the world, become a toxic mixture that could undo progress in Africa’s largest economy. Proper implementation of the NDP would restructure the economy and could put the country onto a sustained higher growth path. This would break the ‘middle-income trap’; the term economists often use to label South Africa’s current predicament.

At the seminar the African Futures Project will presents its latest paper, the first in a series examining South Africa’s ambitious and controversial National Development Plan 2030. This paper looks at the feasibility of the NDP economic growth targets.

Chair: Anton du Plessis, Deputy Executive Director; ISS

Speakers: Jakkie Cilliers, Executive Director and Hanna Camp, Consultant, ISS

Respondents:

• John Kane-Berman, Chief Executive, South African Institute of Race Relations
• Commissioner from the NDP (TBC)

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