RDP, noun

Initial letters of Reconstruction and Development Programme. Often attributive.
1995 Sunday Times Magazine 28 May 8RDP funds should be allocated where they are most needed – in squatter camps and townships throughout the country.
1996 X.N. Nojoko in Activate Mar. 61996 is the year of delivery. This is the year workers will judge whether the RDP is delivering or whether they are just noble words which will remain an elusive dream.
1998 J. Kgosana in Cape Times 24 Apr. (True Colours) 12I think things are quite a bit better than they used to be. The RDP is helping us to have houses and water supplied in some of the rural areas.
1999 M. Merten in Mail & Guardian 14 May 6Lionville consists mainly of one-roomed houses built with RDP funds.
2007 N. Ngcobo in Some of My Best Friends are White 22Mbeki has his “RDP of the soul” and I have my own RDP. Call it the RDP of the spirit. Whatever spirit you want, my friend: whisky, brandy, cognac.
2017 dailymaverick.co.za (DSAE Corpus)[W]e can easily track Manuel’s sidetracking from his push for abandonment of the RDP for policies cemented on a neo-liberal framework that has left the masses in severe economic devastation and as pariahs with a vote.
Initial letters of Reconstruction and Development Programme. Often attributive.
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