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Comprehensive Rural Development Programme (CRDP)

Cabinet approved the Comprehensive Rural Development Programme (CRDP) on 12 August 2009.

Comprehensive Rural Development is one of the key priorities of government, aimed at creating sustainable rural communities throughout the country. The programme will seek to achieve social cohesion and development in rural communities and is based on three key pillars namely:

coordinated and integrated broad-based agrarian transformation
an improved land reform programme
strategic investments in economic and social infrastructure in rural areas.

The Department of Rural Development and Land Reform has anchored the delivery of comprehensive rural development on agrarian transformation, rural development and land reform.

President Jacob Zuma launched the programme in Giyani, Limpopo on 17 August 2009, saying "The Comprehensive Rural Development Programme is our national collective strategy in our joint fight against poverty, hunger, unemployment and lack of development in our rural areas. It is an embodiment of our unshaken commitment that we shall not rest in our drive to eradicate poverty."

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