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Operation Vulindlela: Opening the road

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Abstract

Operation Vulindlela is a joint delivery unit of the Presidency and the National Treasury, established in 2020 to implement a limited set of reforms identified in a 2019 National Treasury growth paper. Its first phase covered electricity generation licensing, water-use licences, work visas, freight rail and ports, and telecommunications. A second phase extends to metro rail, municipal water services, local government finances and digital government. This article sets out what each of those reforms involved, and where the programme now stands.

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Informs these policy ideas

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Themes

energytransportfiscalregulationdigitalwatergovernancegrowth
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