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This is an audio version of the Wikipedia Article:\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reconstruction_and_Development_Programme\n\n\n00:01:34 Social achievements of the RDP
00:07:14 See also
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\n\n\nListening is a more natural way of learning, when compared to reading. Written language only began at around 3200 BC, but spoken language has existed long ago.\n\nLearning by listening is a great way to:\n- increases imagination and understanding\n- improves your listening skills\n- improves your own spoken accent\n- learn while on the move\n- reduce eye strain\n\nNow learn the vast amount of general knowledge available on Wikipedia through audio (audio article). You could even learn subconsciously by playing the audio while you are sleeping! If you are planning to listen a lot, you could try using a bone conduction headphone, or a standard speaker instead of an earphone.\n\nListen on Google Assistant through Extra Audio:\nhttps://assistant.google.com/services/invoke/uid/0000001a130b3f91\nOther Wikipedia audio articles at:\nhttps://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=wikipedia+tts\nUpload your own Wikipedia articles through:\nhttps://github.com/nodef/wikipedia-tts\nSpeaking Rate: 0.8755253546466912\nVoice name: en-AU-Wavenet-D\n\n\n"I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think."\n- Socrates\n\n\nSUMMARY\n=======\nReconstruction and Development Programme (RDP) is a South African socio-economic policy framework implemented by the African National Congress (ANC) government of Nelson Mandela in 1994 after months of discussions, consultations and negotiations between the ANC, its Alliance partners the Congress of South African Trade Unions and the South African Communist Party, and "mass organisations in the wider civil society".The ANC's chief aim in developing and implementing the Reconstruction and Development Programme, was to address the immense socioeconomic problems brought about by the consequences of the struggle against its predecessors under the Apartheid regime. Specifically, it set its sights on alleviating poverty and addressing the massive shortfalls in social services across the country—something that the document acknowledged would rely upon a stronger macroeconomic environment. Achieving poverty alleviation and a stronger economy were thus seen as deeply interrelated and mutually supporting objectives—development without growth would be financially unsustainable, while growth without development would fail to bring about the necessary structural transformation within South Africa's deeply inequitable and largely impoverished population. Hence the RDP attempted to combine measures to boost the economy such as contained fiscal spending, sustained or lowered taxes, reduction of government debt and trade liberalisation with socially minded social service provisions and infrastructural projects. In this way, the policy took on both socialist and neo-liberal elements—but could not be easily categorised wholly in either camp.