Reconstruction and Development Programme, noun phrase

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Also (rarely) with small initials.
A policy framework introduced by the first democratic South African government in 1994, to redress the socio-economic inequalities created by apartheid. Also attributive.
1997 R. Friedman & B. Gool in Cape Times 25 Apr. 1It could be the subconscious knowledge that more than 300 years of white rule is over, or perhaps it is a result of the Reconstruction and Development Programme’s work-in-progress billboards scattered across the countryside.
2013 tshikululu.org.za (DSAE Corpus)It started out in 1994 with the Reconstruction and Development Programme (RDP), now barely remembered bar for the ‘matchbox’ RDP houses that dot townships throughout SA.
2016 bdlive.co.za (DSAE Corpus)He had moved to Gauteng for a better life yet spent most of his time living in squatter camps until he received a reconstruction and development programme house in a dusty location.
2017 dailymaverick.co.za (DSAE Corpus)At that time it was argued that this would be the only way the ruling party would be able to deliver on its new mandate, the Reconstruction and Development Programme (RDP).
A policy framework introduced by the first democratic South African government in 1994, to redress the socio-economic inequalities created by apartheid. Also attributive.
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