"Responsibility starts with us, with the recognition that we do not live in a vacuum. Each one of us is a constituent part of a greater organism: our community, our country, our continent, our world".
Desmond Tutu
The National Planning Commission (NPC) has released a 444-page report outlining how they believe we should take the country into a brighter, more sustainable future by 2030.
Why do we need a national plan? Planning for Thandi’s future
This fantastic RSA Animate-inspired video literalises the work of the National Planning Commission, explaining how our joint efforts will directly impact on people’s lives – starting with Thandi.
Trevor Manuel, chairperson of the National Planning Commission, explains how the the NPC's Diagnostic Report will be used to improve the life of Thandi, an 18 year old school leaver.
In 6 minutes, ‘Planning for Thandi’s future’ clearly describes the challenges facing South Africa, and some of the solutions.
The video clip is fascinating, compelling, and an invaluable tool for understanding the context of our many challenges in South Africa.
Planning for Thandi's future
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GOODIES
Our intention is to use this space as a place to invoke, encourage, challenge and move each other to start a process of writing a new chapter in the story of our lives.
In this story we rediscover a purpose for living that opens up a plethora of ways for thinking, acting and serving. It is about transitioning from the ordinary to the extra-ordinary as we journey together. It is about building a new future filled with hope and opportunity.
Ha Ha Ha, we got you. We thought naming this page Goodies will get you to click and see. Well, you are here now - this page is designed to be a treasure trove of articles, reports, ebooks, quotable quotes, etc. that gets us to think, apply our minds, and gets us involved in new and better action for a brighter and sustainable future.
If you have access to resources that you think we need to add here, please make contact and let's post it here.
Each one of us must help the miracle happen
Desmond Tutu May 2012
In 1994, when we all voted for the first time, we hung up our activist T-shirts and ceded total responsibility for our lives to our newly elected government. Then we folded our arms and waited for the miracle of better lives to be bestowed on us, a nation of passive recipients awaiting government largesse. When it isn't forthcoming, we organise service-delivery protests.
You must face and solve your own challenges
Hillary Rodham Clinton August 2012
Being present at the birth of this new democracy was an experience that not only I, but the world, will never forget. We are now 18 years removed from that iconic moment. Today, your country is different from the one I visited in 1994, and so too are the challenges you must confront and the opportunities that are there for the seizing.
And if SA is to achieve the full measure of your own ambition, you, too, must face and solve your own challenges...
Despite adequate funding, we have failed to deliver services
Trevor Manuel March 2011
South Africa has failed to deliver quality services to the poor, despite adequate funding, Planning Minister Trevor Manuel said on Wednesday. “We must accept that despite the adequate allocation of funding, we fail to deliver quality services, especially to the poor”. He said legislators needed to recognise that the quality of democracy should be measured in a country's success in uprooting poverty, reducing inequality and broadening opportunities.
