SONA in numbers

Grapple. Strengthen. Plan. These words best define the essence of President Cyril Ramaphosa’s State of the Nation Address, which laid out strategies for tackling current challenges, for deepening the gains already made on many fronts and for plotting the nation’s course forward.

As the President spoke about the state of the nation, a number of interesting figures emerged:

– The number of small emerging farmers who are working the land and need government support to grow. than a million homes.

– The amount government intends investing in the new Infrastructure Fund over a 10-year period.

Housing

– The number of additional housing units the Housing Development Agency will construct in the next five years.

– The amount that will be provided to municipalities and provinces to enable them to fulfil their respective mandates.

Social grants

– The number of monthly social grants paid.

Local municipalities

– The number of municipalities that have been supported and stabilised.

Educating the nation

– The number of municipal infrastructure projects being implemented.

Welcome to SA!

– Tourists visited South Africa in the past year.

– The target for international tourists by 2030.

– The number of jobs that the sector can create in food and agriculture, construction, transport, retail, and the creative and cultural industries by 2030. Nearly – The number of schools without appropriate sanitation facilities.

– The number of schools provided with safe and appropriate sanitation facilities.

– The number of schools in the planning, design or construction stages.

– The number of children accessing early childhood education in the past financial year.

– The number of years it will take to provide every school child with digital workbooks and textbooks on a tablet device.

– The percent of textbooks in high enrolment subjects across all grades that have been digitised.