Failures

• Housing: critics of the RDP point to poor housing quality; only 30% of new houses complied with housing regulations.
• Clean water: Water projects faced, in many cases, serve design faults; the percentage of households relying on rivers, streams and dams for their water actually increased slightly between 1995 and 1999.
• Land Reform: The RDP had aimed to resettle families on 300,000 square kilometres of land- in reality only just over 1% of this goal was achieved.
• Healthcare: Access to healthcare only improved slightly under the RDP; between 1995 and 1998 life expectancy of South Africans fell from 64.1 years to 53.2 years.
• AIDs patients occupied up to 40% of beds in public hospitals.