This document - The Reconstruction and Development Programme (RDP) - is the end of one process and the beginning
of another. The document is the result of many months of consultation within the ANC, its Alliance partners and other
mass organisations in the wider civil society. This consultation has resulted in the policy framework contained in this document.

This review explores how the state in fact - and in stated objectives - has sought to provide universal access to basic education. It also explores how basic education is defined.

This research presents a Decent Standard of Living (DSL) and a DSL Index (DSLI) for South Africa. It is based on a concept for relative poverty that focuses on the ability of people to achieve a socially determined acceptable standard of living to enable them to participate fully in society.

Studies in Poverty and Inequality Institute (SPII) with the Friedrich Ebert Stiftung (FES) hosted a high level seminar on 6 July 2012 to debate how the ANC policy conference might shape the immediate and longer term interests for South Africa's unemployed, working poor, working middle class, business elite and political elite respectively around the following three issues: 1) access to basic services and the notion of the 'Developmental State'; 2) economic transformation a nd the ANC's version of a 'mixed economy'; 3) incomes: employment and access to key assets.