Successes

• Housing: Between 1994 and the start of 2001 over 1.1 cheap houses eligible for government subsidies had been built, accommodating 5 million of the estimated 12.5 million South Africans without proper housing.
• Clean water: By the beginning of 1998, standpipes had been installed within 200 metres of the dwellings of about 1.3 million rural people.
• By 2000, a total of 236 projects had supplied clean piped water to nearly 4.9 million- most of whom were inhabitants of former homelands.
• Electrification: Between 1994 and May 2000 around 1.75 million homes had been connected to the national grid, while the proportion of rural homes with electricity grew from 12% to 42%
• Land reform: By 1999 some 39000 families had been settled on 3,550 square kilometres of land. Authorities claimed that 250,000 people had "received land" within four years
• Healthcare: Between April 1994 and the end of 1998, around 500 new clinics gave an additional 5 million people access to primary health facilities.
• Under the polio-hepatitis programme that began in 1998, 8 million children were immunised within 2 years.
• Public works: A community-based Public Works Programme provided employment over 5 years to 240,000 people on road-building schemes and the installation of sewage, sanitation facilities and water supplies.