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Elections 2004

Gauteng
Party Seats 1999 Seats after floor-crossing (73)

ACDP 1 1

ANC 50 50

DP 13 12

FA 1 1

IFP 3 3

NNP 3 3

UDM 1 1

VF/FF 1 1

ID - 1

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Gauteng - Parties

Gauteng covers just over 17 000sq km-approximately 1.4% of the total land surface of South Africa. It is the smallest of the nine provinces. Despite its size, Gauteng is home to approximately eight million people. After 1994 elections, PWV (Pretoria-Witwatersrand-Vereeniging) as it was known became Gauteng.

In the second democratic elections (1999) at total of fourteen parties contested for the elections. The African National Congress was re-elected with an even bigger majority and managed to get fifty seats in the provincial legislature. The people renewed the mandate of the ANC and agreed on a five year programme to accelerate change to bring about a better life for all.

Tackling poverty and joblessness have been key priorities, with an emphasis on strategies to promote sustainable economic growth and job creation and ensuring the delivery of quality services in education, health care and other social services.

Challenges

Key provincial strategic priorities which have been defined as follows:

Economic Development – creating an enabling infrastructure that will act as a catalyst for economic growth and the creation of sustainable jobs through the Blue IQ portfolio of projects and local economic development and regeneration.
Addressing poverty – utilising labour intensive construction methodologies in delivering infrastucture and the Zivuseni programme that utilises communities in the maintenance of social infrastructure
Protecting the most vulnerable through increasing access to social grants and primary school feeding scheme.
Building sustainable communities through delivery of infrastructure, integrated development planning, integrated public transport, accelerating the provision of housing and urban regeneration.
Developing human capital – through improved access and quality of education with an increased emphasis on maths and science, a focus on primary health care and improving the service at institutions and the response to the HIV/Aids epidemic; and the focus on women including empowerment and addressing violence against women and children
Good governance and making the GPG public service work better – by ensuring better planning,budgeting, monitoring and evaluation. And through training and capacity building, employment equity, gender mainstreaming and improving access for people with disabilities.

The key features of the 2003 MTEF include:

Completing what we can achieve
Making sure our initiatives deliver results to our people
Prioritisation of expenditure towards infrastructure development and increased allocations towards health, education and welfare
Reprioritisation of projects that do not have high impact and expand projects that are successful
Build capacity of government to deliver
Begin planning for 2014 programme with STD management offered in 89% of health institutions.

Initiatives begun in previous years that are ongoing and continue to form a key component of the special projects designed to impact on the objectives of the GPG are:

Blue IQ
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Zivuseni
Gauteng Shared Services Centre
Alexandra Urban Renewal Project
Elimination of the backlog in water and sanitation services
Environmental management and waste minimization