What is the Meaning of a National Democratic Revolution – Part 3

What is the Meaning of a National Democratic Revolution – Part 3 The District Development Model as an Agent for Transformation Having employed the District Development Model as a unit of analysis, a foundation would have been laid for the model to be used to address the issues of transformation that a post-apartheid state failed to deal with over the past 30 years. The five main areas of transformation which are economic empowerment, reindustrialisation and employment; land redistribution for mining, agriculture and housing; education, health and general welfare; technological advancement, sports, arts and culture; as well as safety and security, are currently national and provincial competencies, whereas they would be effectively executed at a district level given the vivid results that would emerge from their evaluation as units of analysis. In its 1962 Programme for the South African Revolution, titled “The Road to South African Freedom”, the South African Communist Party (SACP) declared “that the revolutionary people of South Africa cannot merely take over existing State and government institutions designed to maintain colonialism, but must destroy them and create new people’s institutions in their place. … New territorial administrative regions should be established enjoying full powers of local government (District Municipalities) corresponding to the progressive traditions and the wishes of the people of each area, but conforming to the overall cha