SA: towards a 10-year review
17 October 2003
The government has released a discussion document reviewing the impact of its policies as South Africa approaches the end of its first decade as a democratic country.
The study, Towards a Ten Year Review, was prompted "by a need to measure progress in confronting the key challenges government faced in 1994", government spokesperson Teboho Montse said on Thursday.
Towards a Ten Year Review is based on comprehensive research conducted within and outside government. The report evaluates the extent to which the government has achieved the objectives of reconstruction and development over the past decade.
It also "sets out more modestly to explore the possible policy permutations for the next decade, in the context of the imperatives of the Constitution and the challenges of reconstruction and development", the Government Communication and Information System
(GCIS) says in a statement.
The report was produced by the policy co-ordination and advisory services unit within the Presidency, overseen by a steering group of ministers. Inputs were made by individual government departments, and outputs were reviewed by directors-general clusters.
The GCIS said the government hopes the report would spark public discussion and "encourage other sectors of society - in sport, arts and culture, academia, the professional spheres, trade unions and the private sector - to develop assessments of their own sectors.
"Together these different reviews and the public discussion will help the nation assess itself in our first decade of freedom."
SouthAfrica.info reporter
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