The Presidency last week released its Medium-Term Strategic Framework (MTSF) 2014-2019 – the blueprint for how the country will go forward over the next five years.
The main targets of the MTSF have been extrapolated as the salient numbers:
* Between 7 and 18 – ages of all children in school by 2019;
* 65% – number of learners in class groups appropriate to their age by 2019;
* 60% – cohort of each age receiving either a National Senior Certificate or an alternative vocational or further education and training qualification by 2019;
* 75% – learners tested through the Annual National Assessments in grades 3, 6 and 9 by 2019;
* 50% – Annual National Assessments results for grades 3, 6 and 9 for both literacy and numeracy by 2019;
* 250 000 – Grade 12 learners qualifying for university entrance by 2019, up from 172 000 in 2013;
* 213 – clinics and community health centres constructed by 2019;
* 43 – hospitals constructed by 2019;
* 870 – health facilities refurbished in 11 National Health Insurance pilot districts by 2019;
* 2 000 – training of doctors locally and abroad per year by 2019;
* 5,1-million – people on antiretrovirals by 2019, up from 2,4-million;
* 150 000 – inmates of correctional services facilities screened for TB by 2019;
* 500 000 – mineworkers screened for TB by 2019;
* 600 000 – people living in mining communities screened for TB by 2019;
* 63 – life expectancy by 2019;
* 23 – decrease in the under-five mortality rate per 1 000 live births by 2019, from 41 in 2012;
* 18 – decrease in the infant mortality rate per 1 000 live births by 2019, from 27 in 2012;
* 100 – lowering of the maternal mortality rate per 100 000 live births by 2019, from 269 in 2012;
* 5% – the GDP growth rate by 2019, up from 2,5% in 2012;
* 25% – the rate of GDP investment by 2019;
* 10% – the share in household income of the poorest 60% of households by 2019, rising from 5,6% in 2011/12;
* 14% – the official unemployment rate in 2020, down from 25% in the first quarter of 2013;
* 75% – the target of local procurement by 2019;
* 6-million – Expanded Public Works Programme work opportunities by 2019;
* 1-million – Community Work Programme work opportunities by 2019;
* 90% – learners placed in workplace-based training by 2019 to gain experience and complete their qualification;
* 1,07-million – students enrolled at universities by 2019, up from 950 000 in 2013;
* 1,238-million – learners enrolled in technical and vocational education and training colleges by 2019, up from about 670 455 in 2013;
* 36 000 – students enrolled in foundation programmes by 2019, up from 16 300 in 2013;
* 24 000 – artisans produced every year by 2019, up from 18 110 in 2013;
* 3 000 – PhD graduates per year by 2019, up from 1 870 in 2013;
* 57 000 – graduates in engineering science by 2019;
* 45 000 – graduates in human and animal health by 2019;
* 36 000 – graduates in natural and physical sciences by 2019;
* 20 000 – teacher graduates per year by 2019, up from 13 740 in 2013;
* 10 – universities offering technical and vocational education and training lecturing by 2019;
* 30% – technical and vocational education and training college lecturers with workplace exposure every year by 2019
* 400 – entry level academic staff receiving teaching and research development opportunities from the Teaching and Research Development Grant by 2019, up from 50 in 2012;
* 100 – new black entrants in the academic workforce by 2019;
* 27 411 – postgraduate master’s students awarded bursaries and fellowships by the National Research Fund by 2019, up from 3 704 in 2012;
* 15 209 – postgraduate doctoral students awarded bursaries and fellowships by the National Research Fund by 2019, up from 2 265 in 2012;
* 19% – the electricity generation reserve margin by 2019, up from 1%;
* 5% – bulk-water resources commissioned by 2019, in comparison to 2014;
* 80% – broadband penetration by 2019, up from 33,7% in 2013;
* 330 Mt – tonnage moved on rail by 2019, up from 207 Mt in 2013;
* 35 – average crane moves per hour to improve the operational performance of sea ports and inland terminals by 2019;
* 20% – percentage of productive land owned by previously disadvantaged individuals by 2019, up from 11,5% in 2013;
* 7,2-million – hectares (ha) of land transferred to previously disadvantaged individuals by 2019, as compared to 4-million ha by 2013;
* 9,5% – decrease in the percentage of households who are vulnerable to hunger by 2019, down from 11,4% in 2013;
* 22% – decrease in the percentage of the population living below the lower bound poverty line (R443 in 2011 prices) by 2019, down from 32,3%;
* 40% – decrease in rural unemployment by 2019, down from the current 49%;
* 1,4-million – people living in new or improved housing conditions by 2019;
* 110 000 – new housing units delivered in the affordable gap market by 2019;
* 49 – municipalities assigned or accredited with the housing function by 2019;
* 563 000 – title deeds for new subsidy units to be transferred by 2019;
* 900 000 – title deeds in the integrated residential housing programme to be transferred by 2019;
* 750 000 – households benefiting from the expansion of informal settlement upgrading by 2019;
* 2 200 – informal settlements with basic services and infrastructure by 2019;
* 90% – percentage of households with access to a functional water service by 2019, up from 85% in 2013;
* 90% – percentage of households with access to a functional sanitation service by 2019, up from 84% in 2013, including elimination of bucket sanitation in the formal areas;
* 1,4-million – additional households to be connected to the grid by 2019;
* 105 000 – additional non-grid connections by 2019;
* 65% – level of public trust and confidence in local government by 2019, up from 51% in 2012, as measured by the IPSOS survey;
* 75% – municipalities receiving unqualified audits by 2019;
* 34% – reduction in carbon-dioxide emissions by 2019;
* 27% – percentage of the coastline with at least partial protection by 2019, up from 22,5% in 2013;
* 60% – mines complying with the National Water Act by 2019, up from 35% in 2013;
* 15-million – the number of foreign visitor arrivals by 2017;
* R125-billion – the contribution of tourism revenue to the economy by 2017;
* 60% – the uptake of South Africa’s quota of posts in the African Union Commission and African Union Structures by 2019;
* 59 – South Africa’s bilateral economic cooperation agreements by 2019, up from 49;
* 95% – universal access of eligible people to social assistance benefits, notably the child support grant, disability grant and old age pension, by 2019;
* 65% – the proportion of people of the opinion that race relations are improving by 2019, up from 40% in 2011;
* 90% – the social cohesion index by 2019, up from 80,4% in 2011;
* 85% – the active citizenship index by 2019, up from 79% in 2011; and
* 10% – the number of people over 18 that belong to a charitable organisation by 2019, up from 5% in 2011.
