However, the country can only operate within the realm of the possible as depicted by the NDP. Making the shift towards more dynamic, sustainable sectors will take time. The private sector's response to changing incentives and patterns of investment decisions occurs over the medium to long term. Fixed equipment will be replaced, new value chains need to be developed, and skills experience take years to accumulate. The incontrovertible fact, though, is that South Africa is on track to realise a national democratic society where the extent of poverty, unemployment and inequality shall have shrunk to a point of no reasonable significance.