2016-2021 GOLDEN YEARS COUNCILLOR DANNY JORDAAN EXECUTIVE MAYOR BAY MUNICIPALITY

NELSON MANDELA BAY MUNICIPALITY | 5 GOLDEN YEARS 2016-21 1 4. FIVE GOLDEN YEARS

4.1 Strategic Development of the Nelson Mandela Bay Metro

4.2 New Integrated Development Plan (IDP) and Creation of the Five

Golden Years Document 1 2. POST- RESPONSES TO THESE CHALLENGES - 1914 TO 2015

3. MAY 2015 TO MAY 2016: OUR RECENT 12 MONTHS

FOREWORD

1. HOW WE GOT TO 2016

1.1 Economic Development in Nelson Mandela Bay

1.2 The Apartheid City 1.3 Political Infrastructure of the Apartheid City

1.4 Apartheid Inequalities in Service Delivery

1.5 Political Response 5 7. CONCLUSION

6.OUR BIGGEST CHALLENGE: DEALING WITH POVERTY AND UNEMPLOYMENT

6.1 Houses for all Legitimate Citizens 6.2 Sustainable Communities and Municipal Services 6.3 Extension of the Nelson Mandela Bay Municipality’s Assistance to the Poor (ATTP)

6.4 Creation of Adequate Network of Old Age Homes 5. FIVE GOLDEN YEARS – 6.5 Go for Growth – Economic OUR PLAN TO Development GO FORWARD 6.5.1 Attention-grabber Projects 6.6 Campaigns 5.1 Vision and Mission 5.2 Our Situation has presented us 6.7 Support for our Flagship Industry – with 5 Challenges the Motor Industry 6.8 Establishment of our Natural Major 5.2.1 Accommodating a rapidly Industry – the Ocean Economy increasing Population of Youth 6.9 The Creative Economy 5.2.2 Overcoming a Looming Water Crisis 6.10 The Economy 5.2.3 Rebuilding Social Partnerships 6.11 Catalytic Projects 5.2.4 Building our Municipality into a NELSON MANDELA BAY MUNICIPALITY | 5 GOLDEN YEARS 2016-21 3 5 Motivated Engine for Service Delivery 67 For all of our long days, Port created as a key priority. “make poverty history”, and create Elizabeth has been the centre of Our municipal administration had meaningful jobs. The needs of social our lives. a spectacular start after 1994, justice and economic efficiency but endured a few difficult years demand this. Most of us were born here, recently. A number of challenges schooled here, got our first are raised in this document. In this document, we continue to employment here. We may have highlight the “Five Golden Years for spent time away for studies, The effects of the Apartheid Nelson Mandela”. This concept work, or even in deployed geography, economy and history will rapidly gained speed in a society activities. But now we are here always skew development. Nelson hungry for economic progress, as Councillors. We spend our Mandela Bay Municipality has an jobs and pleasant living conditions, birthdays here. Enjoy special opportunity again, through its Five- which should and must include the events here. Now we are year IDP, to ensure that the adage “A safety of our citizens. planning our future together here. better life for all” is no longer rhetoric. We have the ability to change things The IDP is a vital way to carry the This is our special place, where we around, just as we witnessed many many aspirations of those we serve. grew up, where our grandparents vestiges of apartheid destroyed. Our The implementation thereof will be and parents are buried, where our underserved communities, however, greatly enhanced by public-private children were born and schooled, see and feel less of that change. co-operation and interventions. where we played our sport and went to our houses of religion. Many challenges remain. We Your participation is crucial for function within a global economy. the development of our Metro. I Therefore, our commitment to Our struggle continues to restore the sincerely hope that you take the Nelson Mandela Bay is total. It is dignity of our people and to keep time to read this document and an extraordinary honour to serve hope alive, and to achieve effective offer comment on it. as members of this Council. We and efficient governance. are utterly determined to do this May we continuously make hope a job thoroughly, properly, efficiently Corruption and other forms of reality by delivering quality services and to make a long-term mark on unethical practices will always through a municipal administration this Metro - be it economically, hamper progress. In the past year, rebuilt on integrity. FORE- politically or administratively. we have heightened our resolve to eliminate corruption. Even our D.A. JORDAAN As you read through this document, fiercest critics have to concede EXECUTIVE MAYOR WORD you will see our analyses – where that we are making meaningful and NELSON MANDELA BAY we are, where we are going, and tough interventions. In the end, the where we want to be. Nelson theft of municipal resources has a Mandela Bay’s economy is blessed devastating effect on the poor. with remarkable businesses. But our economy is not growing as We therefore have to concentrate fast as we would like it to. Our our efforts on creating economic people want jobs, and jobs must be progress through efficiencies, COUNCILLOR DANNY JORDAAN EXECUTIVE MAYOR NELSON MANDELA BAY MUNICIPALITY

NELSON MANDELA BAY MUNICIPALITY | 5 GOLDEN YEARS 2016-21 5 NELSON MANDELA BAY MUNICIPALITY | 5 GOLDEN YEARS 2016-21 5 HOW WE GOT TO 2016

We did not get here by chance. of their flocks and herds, and, with a or extirpated; the privilege of slavery few exceptions reduced to personal was designed exclusively for the Long before us in Nelson Mandela servitude, under circumstances which women and children; the men, whose Bay came our first modern people: rendered them more wretched and natural habits disqualified them for the San and Khoi, nomadic people more helpless than the slaves with the purposes of the colonialists, who built no permanent structures whom they are now associated. The and whose revenge was probably nor kept written records. The numerous free villages with which the dreaded, were destined to death. San did, however, leave us many country had abounded, had almost examples of their beautiful and entirely disappeared, and the few The decision of government was meaningful rock art. paltry and miserable hordes who had followed by an order for the raising of established themselves in some of the Commandoes, or military parties, to The arrival of white settlers, trekking , had no longer the power of proceed against this unfortunate race. from the west, and later landing choosing their own chiefs. These were usually raised by the from England, saw the beginning of different field-cornets, who collected permanent structures – the Drostdy in Nor were they at liberty to choose the colonialists on the frontier in their Graaff- Reinet (1786), the beginnings their employment or their masters. respective jurisdictions, have one of (1804), the British and Government had directed that any commandant over the whole. They Fort Frederick (1799), Dutch peasant should be allowed to were to be armed, and to scour the (1815), and, of course, Dr Johannes claim as his property, till the age of neighbouring country to discover the Theodorus Van Der Kemp, who five-and-twenty, all the children of abodes of the San; and when they settled a London Missionary Society the Khoi in his service, to whom he espied a kraal, they were to surprise it missionary institution in 1803, which had given in their infancy a morsel if possible, and, singling out the men, he called - our Bay’s first of bread. Should a Khoi, therefore to shoot them. The surviving women permanent settlement. who had engaged himself for a year, and children were to be divided and attempt to remove at the expiration shared among the members of the The near-simultaneous arrival of of his term he would be permitted, or expedition, or distributed among the Dutch trekboer and British Settlers perhaps driven away, but his children, neighbouring farmers. CHAPTER had dreadful consequences for both who had been encouraged to enter the San and Khoi people. As Dr John the house of the boor, and to receive Also, between 1779 and 1851, eight ONE Philip wrote in 1828: a morsel of food, were detained. Frontier Wars were fought between these colonialists and the Xhosa " In the course of about a century and In the year 1774, the whole race people moving westwards across the a half, the Khoi had been despoiled of San, who had not submitted to Kei River." of their lands, robbed or cajoled out servitude, was ordered to be seized Through all this bloodshed and horror, its first growth spurt in the 19th century. cars in 1903; by 1923, this total had the settlements of Uitenhage and Port risen to 1.9 million, by when Ford Elizabeth began to take shape. By By the middle of that century, it had and General Motors were scrambling 1875 there were 16000 people in Port become the premier port of the Cape, around the world to establish assembly Elizabeth and Uitenhage, of which surpassing in imports and networks – Latin America soon had 11000 were white. Thirty five years later exports, for Port Elizabeth had become plants. whites were only half of the metro’s the centre of the wool trade in South population of 52000, and by 1980 . This status saw Port Elizabeth As member of the Dominion and Africans were the largest population keyed into the expanding world system Empire, Canada had an unobstructed group, and half of the entire population. of the first Industrial Revolution. road to investment in British colonies. However, financial backwardness Ford’s Canadian executives decided I will look at just five of the dynamics and political weaknesses led to Port on Port Elizabeth as a possible site of that shaped our society – firstly, our Elizabeth being by-passed as the port assembly. Production began here 92 economic development and growth; of the Rand minerals miracle of the last years ago, in 1924. General Motors secondly, how forced removals of quarter of the 19th century, and our city were not to be outdone by their main shaped our apartheid slipped into a general decline over the rivals and arrived in Port Elizabeth a city; thirdly, how the apartheid city period of the turn of the century. Then mere two years later. being consolidated, apartheid political dawned the era of the motor car. institutions were imposed; fourthly, the Both assembly lines were sited in old horrifying inequalities in government The first cars manufactured were high wool warehouses, which effectively services apartheid delivered, which priced, hand-made machines built symbolised Port Elizabeth’s move became our legacy and responsibility by skilled artisans in, predominantly, from one industrial revolution to in 1994, and, finally, the decade of Europe. In 1906, Germany and France another, for the city moved from revolt, the 1980’s. produced between them more than half the failing international network of of the world’s miniscule motor fleets. the world of wool (Liverpool) to the 1.1 Economic Development in growing international network of Nelson Mandela Bay Then came Henry Ford, and the modern the new industrial revolution: motor assembly line with deskilled jobs and manufacturing (Detroit). Through the early years, two periods of fragmentation of work. By 1924, Ford’s great economic growth spurred the rise Detroit plant alone produced nearly half Twice, by good fortune possibly, Port in population and the growth in urban the planet’s vehicles. Elizabeth ended up as ’s settlements in Nelson Mandela Bay. centre of the world’s international Port Elizabeth/Uitenhage experienced The world had produced 1 700 motor growth industry. Both wool and motor

NELSON MANDELA BAY MUNICIPALITY | 5 GOLDEN YEARS 2016-21 cars carried the world before them Thus, Port Elizabeth/Uitenhage with Africans moving to McNamara for some time, with both industries has had two strong periods of Village in New Brighton and Coloured subsequently suffering lean times and economic growth, which caused the people to Schauder Township; a booms. population to grow from 16 000 in second removal from Korsten in the 1875 to 1 152 000 in 2011, and the late 1950’s saw KwaZakhele set out Certainly, in the years following geographic area spread accordingly. to house 21 000 Africans removed the Second World War, enormous from Korsten. investment was made in Nelson The period 1980 to 1991 was Mandela Bay by companies arriving heralded by unrestrained population The Group Areas removals were in South Africa to manufacture growth in the Metro, accompanied dramatic – North End and South End, components for the growing motor by a loss of one quarter of all Fairview and Willowdene were razed industry. Between 1945 and the early manufacturing jobs, and a loss of in the late 1960’s to the early 1970’s, 1950’s, Bus Bodies, Feltex, Willards jobs in total. with Asian Port Elizabethans moved Batteries, Shatterproof, Armourplate, to Woolhope (now Malabar) and Goodyear and General Tyre arrived on During this period, the Metro added Coloured folk to the “Northern Areas”. our shores, as did Volkswagen Beetle 50% to its population (from 614 000 Only 1% of the White community was Manufacture in Uitenhage at SAMAD. to 963 000), driven principally by an moved in terms of the Group Areas 80% increase in its African population, Act, while over 40% of the Coloured Another boom followed in the while the total number of jobs dropped community was devastated by the 1960’s, with GM, Ford and SAMAD from 147 000 to 145 000. bulldozers of apartheid. building engine plants and the growth of many other component In 1980, there was one formal job The final removals - the “State of manufacturers, as assembly lines for every third person – by 1991, this Emergency Removals” - affected became production lines under the ratio had dropped to one formal job mostly Uitenhage: in 1985, over direction of government’s local content for every sixth person in the Metro. 48000 residents of Langa were programmes. High levels of unemployment and moved during a rainy winter, under restricted growth set in - and has conditions of great hardship, to Sadly, Port Elizabeth has not enjoyed remained a defining characteristic of KwaNobuhle. an industrial boom since then. our Metro to this day. The Metro was stratified in the Japanese motor manufacturers 1.2 The Apartheid City following manner: Whites lived in established themselves nearer the inner-city suburbs, or moved to the bulk markets and rapidly grew in In spatial terms, the Metro has grown periphery voluntarily; , market share. on at least four waves of forced Asians and Blacks were forcefully removals: moved to the periphery. The Ford Motor Company, after so many years in Port Elizabeth, quit the Firstly, the inner-city ‘locations’ The apartheid city was created as city and relocated its motor assembly (Gubbs, Reservoir, etc.) were moved follows: its dormitory suburbs for operations to Pretoria. to the in the newly poor people expelled to its far-flung acquired New Brighton area from periphery, and commerce and The export booms of the 1980’s, 1903 onwards. industry and the White community where the world’s growth industries remaining undisturbed in its tranquil were essentially Asian manufacturers, Korsten, which housed the second centre. bypassed South Africa and Port largest grouping of Africans and Elizabeth, as political sanctions made the fourth largest of Coloureds, was hard work for South African exporters. destroyed between 1837 and 1944, 1.3 The Political Infrastructure of Town and City Councils (1985), the Motherwell property (particularly commercial and industrial), the Apartheid City Council, and those of KwaDwesi, KwaMagxaki, and and tariffs charged on trading services (again KwaNobuhle. mostly consumed by commerce and industry), To this geographical separation, apartheid added remained in the control of the all-white Port political separation - Within the Metro, the White Councils remained the only Elizabeth City Council and the Uitenhage Council, In Nelson Mandela Bay’s municipal life, the political legislator bodies – they were “advised” by Coloured and the entire tax base of the Metro had the fragmentation of apartheid saw the area of jurisdiction and Asian Advisory Councils, and Africans were cruelly responsibility of delivering services only to the of the Port Elizabeth and Uitenhage Councils restricted told to run their own affairs, without resources – as Van wealthiest 40% of the community. and, in the 1960’s, they lost the responsibility of Zyl Slabbert said so succintly: “Administer your own delivering services in the African group areas of misery”. • The African “towns” had, as a tax base, rental Nelson Mandela Bay. This responsibility was picked collections on dilapidated domestic properties, up by a bureaucracy named, firstly, the Bantu Affairs The economics of these apartheid arrangements were profits on the sale of alcohol and such revenues Administration Board, then later the as follows: as trading services could generate in a very poor, Administration Board, then subsequently the Eastern • The settling in of Group Areas and the separation mostly domestic environment. Cape Development Board and, finally, the Cape of the black “towns” of “Ibhayi”, Motherwell, • After these arrangements had been in place for a Provincial Administration. The political responsibility KwaDwesi, KwaMagxaki and KwaNobuhle have number of years, the end result was as predictable within African areas was vested in, firstly, the Native had a dramatic effect on the standard of municipal as they were disgraceful. The table extracted from Reserve Committee (1902); then the Native Advisory services over the entire area of our Metro. municipal accounts in the late 1980’s gives clues Committees (1923); then the Community Council as to the financial arrangements in place at that (1978) (which for the first time had delegated as • The vast majority of the commercial and industrial time in our City and in our Metropole. opposed to advisory powers); subsequently, the areas of the Metro were zoned into the White Khayamnandi Town Council (1983); and, finally, the group area, with predictable consequences. The municipal tax base, being essentially rates on

Kwa- Kwa- Kwa- Municipality Port Uitenhage Algoa Ibhayi Despatch Mother-well Total Elizabeth Nobuhle Magaaki Dwesi Latest Year End Jun 89 Jun 89 Jun 88 Jun 89 Jun 89 Jun 89 Jun 88 Jun 88 Expenditure 338.8m 63.9m 62.3m 40.3m 18.9m 10.2m 8.9m 2.5m 0.4m 546.4m Income 342.8m 64.9m 63.7m 25.6m 12.2m 10.6m 8.2m 1.5m 0.7m 530.2m Surplus 4.0m 1.0m 1.4m - - 0.4m - - 0.3m 7.1m Deficit - - - 14.9m 6.7m - 0.7m 1.0m - 23.3m Population 150 000 27 500 White - - - 14 000 - - - 191 500 156 000 38 000 Coloured - - - 3 000 - - - 197 000 8 200 500 Asian ------8 700 Black/African 20 000 3 000 - 335 000 130 000 1 000 90 400 10 400 6 700 596 500 Total Population 334 200 69 000 335 000 130 000 18 000 90 400 10 400 6 700 993 700

Municipal Expenditure Per head R1 014 R926 R120 R145 R567 R99 R240 R0 R487

Municipal Income per head R1 025 R940 R76 R93 R589 R91 R144 R105 R469

NELSON MANDELA BAY MUNICIPALITY | 5 GOLDEN YEARS 2016-21 9 Obviously, these figures provide only However, two positive developments Predictably, service delivery collapsed, a quick comparison. Many issues had emerged from these financial and municipal infrastructure, targeted make them unreliable, not least of arrangements of the apartheid City: by revolutionaries for destruction which is the fact that electricity, water The central government had been and anyway beyond the capacity of and health services are sold by one forced to accept some responsibility the municipal purse to adequately municipality to another and are thus for the financial provision towards maintain, rotted where it existed in double-counted; the books of the service delivery at municipal level; black “cities”. By the end of the 1980’s, erstwhile “Ibhayi City Council” often while this funding was ad hoc and “Ibhayi”, the home of probably 400 000 contained longer tables of auditors’ at the time called “bridging finance”, citizens, was provided by its Council qualifications than of reliable figures! the principle of central governmental with all of eight dilapidated halls, three financial involvement in municipal ruined swimming pools, five damaged The general drift of the table is, budgets was established; and stadiums, five other sportsfields and however, instructive: towards the end one library, with almost no books. The of the apartheid city, the following The institution of the Regional Services municipal purse was spent picking up arrangements were in place: Council was created as a redistribution 30 000 buckets of stercus per week, mechanism, with powers to raise and paying the salaries of officials who The “White” municipalities were funds in the “White” cities and spend had abandoned even the responsibility balancing their books, while the Black them on capital projects in Black for tendering bills to those who owed councils were running large deficits, “cities”. These Councils had a new Council money. with the only prospect being the gap taxation base (tax on payroll levels, between revenue and expenditure and on turnovers in business) and At that time of One City, municipal widening; their creation brought two new sources operating expenditure was as follows: of revenue to the municipal level of Municipal expenditure in the White, government. Coloured and Indian areas of Port Elizabeth was, on average, probably Thus we arrive at the deathbed of more than 10 times as high per head the apartheid city, as black councils, as it was in Port Elizabeth’s black under the joint siege of an inadequate areas, and this was a long-term tax base and a boycotting community, circumstance; could no longer pay their bills, including their bills to “white” cities for The average municipal spend, per the bulk supply of electricity, water head, over the entire One City was and other services. Black Councillors, less than half the per capita spend in long the butt of abuse and attack “White” Port Elizabeth, but four times in their communities, resorted to the spend in black “Ibhayi” “extra-budgetary” methods of salary or KwaNobuhle. augmentation and other nefarious practices. Municipal Operating Expenditure as at June 1994:

MUNICIPAL EXPENDITURE IN MUNICIPAL EXPENDITURE PER HEAD OF POPULATION MUNICIPALITY AGGREGATE FOR YEAR ENDING JUNE IN THAT YEAR 1994

Port Elizabeth Municipality (including Malabar and R636.1 million R1 962-00 Northern Areas) Ibhayi R52.1 million R134-00 Motherwell R32.9 million R305-00 KwaDwesi and KwaMagxaki R10.2 million R467-00 TOTAL R731.2 million R868-00

The writing was on the wall, and the One City processes begun in 1991, concluding in 1994.

1.4 Apartheid Inequalities in Service Delivery 1.4.1 Housing Inequalities The following table was created from population figures supplied by the 1991 Census and housing statistics provided by the Urban Foundation and the East Cape Development Board at the time.

Whites Coloureds Asians Black African

Nelson Mandela Bay Population as at 1991 170 000 190 000 9 000 594 000

Family Size 3.1 4.9 4.2 5.3

Total number of Families to be housed 55 000 39 000 2 200 112 000

Formal Houses in existence 57 340 21 000 1 540 48 000 Shortfall/[Surplus] [2 340] 18 000 660 64 000

Thus we had, in 1993, a shortfall of 82 000 houses – 64 000 for Black African families and 18 000 for Coloured families. This shortfall in African and Coloured housing was taken up by huge numbers of shacks: the backyard shacks numbered as follows: Zwide (10 300); KwaZakhele (7 500); New Brighton (11 800); Walmer-Gqebera (400); KwaNobuhle (8 000); Northern Areas (2 000) – in total, 50 000 backyard shacks; and “Silver Towns” and shacks in open spaces amounted to 15 010 units. Thus, within the Metro’s total Coloured and African Communities, at the dawn of South Africa’s democracy, more citizens had housed themselves in backyard shacks or self-standing shacks than had been housed in formal houses by the apartheid government.

NELSON MANDELA BAY MUNICIPALITY | 5 GOLDEN YEARS 2016-21 11 1.4.2 Municipal Service Inequalities In 1993, the World Bank sent a high-level team to Nelson Mandela Bay to assess the existing state of municipal services available to poor communities in the city. They graded all of Nelson Mandela Bay’s poor suburbs into one of four categories:

Standard

• Water Supply by Communal Standpipe • Sanitation by Bucket or Community toilets • Roads are Unsurfaced Tracks and Paths Minimum 1 • No Stormwater Drainage • No formal Solid Waste collection • No Electricity Service

• Water standpipe within 250 m • On-site Sanitation • Gravel Surface Roads Basic 2 • Unlined Channels and line Crossings • Ad Hoc Solid Waste Collection • High-mast lighting with some house connections

Yard Standpipe Water Supply Intermediate Sewerage Bus routes paved; other roads gravelled Intermediate 3 Bus routes with lined channels; others unlined Regular Solid Waste Collection from Community Collection Points Mast lighting and Restricted House Connection

Meter in House Water Supply Conventional Sewerage All Roads Kerbed and Paved Full 4 On-road Drainage and Pipes and Culverts on Main Roads Regular weekly solid Waste Collection from Houses Street Lighting and Unrestricted metered House Connections

They then calculated the number of people in these areas (the Coloured and African communities of the Metro) who were living at these levels of service, as follows: Citizens of Nelson Mandela Bay Coloured and African Service Level Areas - 1993 Service Levels

1 2 3 4 Total Water 77 930 33 747 17 140 662 838 791 655 Sanitation 111 677 0 77 000 602 978 791 655

Roads 58 972 86 695 430 260 216 328 791 655 Storm Drainage 110 440 47 787 417 100 216 328 791 655

Electricity 195 077 395 250 0 201 328 791 655

It can immediately be seen that 3 out of 4 Coloured and African citizens at the time did not have adequate access to electricity within their homes; that one quarter had inadequate sewerage provision; and that one eighth lacked adequate water provision. Gravel roads were the dominant feature of bus routes for three quarters or our citizens in these areas. 1.4.3 Financial Inequalities in Service Delivery As was outlined in an earlier table, at the end of the 1990’s, municipal spending in Nelson Mandela Bay was approximately as follows:

Municipal Spending per Capita – 1989 Municipal Spending per Capital of the Affected Population

White – Port Elizabeth R1014 White – Uitenhage R926 White – Despatch R567 Townships – Ibhayi R120 Townships – KwaNobuhle R145 Townships – Motherwell R99 Townships – KwaMagxaki R240 Townships – KwaDwesi R60

This inequality in spending led to an equivalent inequality in the availability of services: by 1994, with the arrival of the “One City”, the following are some further examples of the racial slanting in municipal services: The Metro had 16 libraries – 9 in “white" areas, 4 in Coloured Areas, and 3 to service the 60% of the population that was African. Motherwell, home to more than 100 000 citizens, did not have a single library.

Another dramatic statistics from the time (1994) shows the availability of recreational and sporting facilities (regretfully, I only have statistics for then - Port Elizabeth).

NELSON MANDELA BAY MUNICIPALITY | 5 GOLDEN YEARS 2016-21 13 Previously Coloured and Recreation and Sporting Facilities: Port Elizabeth 1994 Previously White Group Area Previously African Group area Asian Group Area Major Parks 2 1 0 Parks with Playground Equipment 202 97 13 Grassed Parks 310 67 5 Swimming Pools 9 5 0 Nature Reserves 5 0 0 Sports Facilities 50 18 6

This situation of massive inequality in housing and all municipal services placed immense strain on municipal budgets in the post-1994 period, as the Herculean task of moving to equality and social justice commenced.

1.5 Political Responses Uitenhage were packed up in the winter of 1986 Africans who had the honour to, in 1994, become and dumped in the rain and mud of KwaNobuhle, a Member of Parliament in South Africa’s first This is not the time to address the story of post- there to re-erect their shacks); vigilantisation (in democratic parliament. Working under President 1976 South Africa. In brief, then: the spontaneous January 1987, Ama Africa, supported by the Mandela was a privilege never to be forgotten; revolt of 1976 ignited mass mobilisation in 1979, police, destroyed the possessions of all UDF and it took me away from my home-town for with the formation of PEBCO in Port Elizabeth. activists in KwaNobuhle); and public massacres three years. This led to the development of critical mass in (in March 1985, 28 residents of Langa were the period 1980-83 and the formation of the gunned down). Democratic local government was also UDF in Cape Town in 1983 (November 1983 in introduced in 1994, with both Port Elizabeth Nelson Mandela Bay); this led to the mass-based None of this could deter the march of the people and Uitenhage forming Transitional Local sustained revolt from 1984 to 1990; which in to their freedom. Councils. In 1995, we had our first democratic turn led to stalemate, and negotiations, and the local government elections in the area, and release of leaders; further negotiations, until a As Tom Lodge wrote: “The UDF in its brief the African National Congress wrested control new day dawned in April 1994. lifespan has presided over the most sustained of both the then separate Port Elizabeth and and massively supported series of civil Uitenhage councils. These were amalgamated in In Nelson Mandela Bay, only six years separated disobedience campaigns (rent, consumer, bus, 2000 into the now Nelson Mandela Metropolitan the formation of the UDF in November 1983 and school etc. boycotts; strikes, stay-aways and Municipality. the then Prime Minister De Klerk’s February 1990 mass rallies) ever witnessed in South Africa, speech. It was a period of midnight murders borrowing certainly from the ideology and motif of My predecessor Metro Mayors, Cllrs Nceba (Comrade Matthew Goniwe, Fort Calata, Sparrow a mythically evoked perception of the struggles Faku, Nomdumiso Maphazi, Zanoxolo Wayile and Mkhonto and Sicela Mhlauli and the murder of of the 1950’s, but expressing these with much Benson Fihla, attacked the inequality of service the PEBCO 3 (Godolosi, Hashe and Galela)). It greater force and resonance.” delivery in the Metro with all their energy – and was also a time of large scale detentions (26 000 a massive amount of progress has been made. persons had been detained by June 1987, 36% And thus we reached April 1994, and the This progress in service delivery and restoring from the Eastern Cape – by then, one African in emergence of the African National Congress the dignity of our citizens I would now like to every hundred in Port Elizabeth/Uitenhage was under President Mandela as the governing party summarise for the record. in emergency detention); mass torture of political in South Africa. prisoners (the Wendy Orr affidavits); forced removals (the entire 48 000 citizens of Langa in I was one of those few incredibly fortunate South NELSON MANDELA BAY MUNICIPALITY | 5 GOLDEN YEARS 2016-21

NELSON MANDELA BAY MUNICIPALITY | 5 GOLDEN YEARS 2016-21 15 THE POST-APARTHEID RESPONSE TO THESE CHALLENGES – 1994 TO 2015

When South Africa’s first democratic governments of Nelson Mandela Bay, • Between 2006 and 2014, over parliament convened in 1994, one under the various mayors who have led 6 000 families were moved from of its first priorities became the the city since we gained our liberty, from floodplains regulation of the country’s then 800 the first (Cllr Nceba Faku and Dr Siva • 27 informal settlements were plus local governments. Pillay) to my immediate predecessor, provided with basic services Cllr Benson Fihla.These achievements between 2008 and 2014 include: • 11 809 erven were provided with A White Paper on local government permanent services between 2010 was commissioned, and five Acts of and 2014 Parliament followed: on demarcation, Housing • 9 parcels of land have been made municipal systems, municipal structures, available for social housing – municipal finance and property rates. The following numbers of “RDP” houses, Walmer Links and Fairview have including the Metro House pioneered been built, and are successful The amalgamation of local government by Mayor Faku, have been built in our projects (Walmer Links has won an was achieved in two waves: in 1994, Metro: Institute of Architects award) the “One City” process saw unified local governments created out of the racially stratified disaster of apartheid, HOUSING UNITS BUILT IN NELSON Electricity which I have already outlined, MANDELA BAY and, subsequently, metropolitan All formal houses, and the great municipalities emerged – in 2000, a Before 2008 32 375 majority of both back-yard and self- united Nelson Mandela Bay Metropolitan standing shacks, are now connected Municipality emerged, consolidating the 2007/08 1 606 to electricity. This is one of the greatest aforementioned eight municipalities 2008/09 8 990 achievements of the African National of 1994. Congress government; an achievement 2009/10 7 616 that has transformed countless lives for Local government elections complicated the better. the local government scene further. The 2010/11 2 956 first democratic local election was held 2011/12 1 682 • 35 000 solar geysers have been in 1995, and the fifth local government fitted to low-income homes, free of election is due later this year, in August 2012/13 1 798 charge 2016. • Hot water load control was installed 2013/14 1 200 on 83 631 geysers. All this alone should have been • 14 000 streetlights were upgraded CHAPTER enough work for our beleaguered local 2014/15 2 500 to halogen bulbs, with great energy governments. However, they also took Total +- 60 000 saving. TWO on the mammoth task of community • 6 514 streetlights were provided development as a first priority, and I Regretfully, many units were not between 2000 and 2013 am extremely proud to report here in well built and have since required this report on just some of the many rectification. Thus far 4 175 units have remarkable successes of the local been rectified, with many more to come. Water and Sanitation Sports Facilities • 22 420 trees have been planted in the townships The following number of households was provided • Between 2005 and 2008, 137 such facilities • 29 cemeteries have been landscaped with water and sanitation: were built • 1 307 CCTV cameras have been installed • Legacy stadiums for 2010 were built in Prince • 3 100 SMMEs have been trained • 26 000 EPWP jobs opportunities have 2000-2008 50 928 Alfred’s Park, Gelvandale and Zwide • 3 swimming pools have been built in been created 2008-09 14 797 disadvantaged areas 2009/10 3 592 Assistance to the Poor Community Facilities 2010/11 3 047 Over 80 000 households of which the joint income is less than two state pensions receive a 100% Major facilities have been built: 2011/12 6 470 rates rebate, free refuse collection and a capped assessment of free electricity and 2012/13 3 607 • The Raymond Mhlaba Centre in Motherwell, water. Our National Treasury believes with a swimming pool and tennis and basketball that this is the most generous support Through this process, all households within the courts system any municipality has for the urban edge have water available mostly on site, • The Lillian Ngoyi Centre in KwaZakhele poor, and we are proud of that. with 2% having to walk a maximum of 200 m – this • The George Botha Centre in Chatty is another great achievement. • The Red Location Museum, Art Gallery and Library in New Brighton • The Njoli Square Centre (work has begun) Roads • The Zwide Community Centre • A Youth Centre and Library have been built in Hundreds of millions of rands have been spent Gqebera/Walmer tarring gravel road in the poor areas of the Metro. • Multi-purpose centres have been built in Wells Estate, Govan Mbeki and -on-Sea Waste management • 14 Customer Care Centres have been opened, bringing Metro services to the people 98% of all households now receive bi-weekly or • 8 new libraries have been built in previously weekly collection. disadvantaged areas • 198 public open spaces have received play equipment

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Over the period, massive While the Industrial for three years; 2010 in our investments have been made Development Zone is not a magnificent stadium and the 2013 in planning, road and platform project that originated within the Africa Cup of Nations. construction and the purchase of Municipality, it is situated within the equipment to begin the supply of a Metro's limits and has proved to be Our list of achievements from 1994 Bus Rapid Transport System for the a magnet for industrial development. to 2005 is nowhere nearly covered Metro. This is, as yet, not operating, The Metro-founded Logistics Park in the above summary. I provide while the final planning is effected. in Uitenhage has been incorporated this information, not to take credit into the Coega IDZ, and it, too, is for these major achievements, for I The Municipality established the flourishing. was not part of the Municipality that Madiba Bay Development Agency delivered all these projects: rather, (MBDA) as its developmental Much else has happened in the I provide this information to, once arm over 10 years ago, and this Nelson Mandela Bay Metro with and for all, dispel any attempt to institution has been an exceptional regard to service delivery and suggest that nothing has changed performer in inner-city urban economic development: major water in the areas of our Metro where renewal. Projects like the Donkin schemes are underway; a massive our poor people live: in fact, there Heritage Trail, the upgrading of new truck manufacturing plant have been massive improvements King’s Beach and the Uitenhage (FAW) has opened in the Metro; for in service delivery, facilities and life Market Square and many others are many years now, we have been the opportunities, and the Municipality I great success stories for our Metro. only host on the African continent now head can raise its head proudly of the International Ironman for a massive job, mostly well done. Championships; the Rugby 7’s

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NELSON MANDELA BAY MUNICIPALITY | 5 GOLDEN YEARS 2016-21 19 MAY 2015 TO MAY 2016 – OUR RECENT 12 MONTHS

When I was honoured to become We set about rectifying these The Nelson Mandela Bay Metro Executive Mayor of Nelson challenges, and I am happy to now has, alongside Ekurhuleni Mandela Bay in May 2015, it was report considerable success. and Cape Town, the highest credit obvious that the Metro was beset rating of any municipality in South with problems. Aided by two assistance Africa, and our financial credibility programmes, one from the City in the eyes of the banks is fully Administration was weak, Support Section of National restored. slow and unreliable, causing Treasury, headed by Mr Roland underperformance in service Hunter, and the other from the The IPTS system is being carefully delivery. National Department of Cooperative re-appraised, and we expect it to Governance and Traditional Affairs, become operational later in 2016. Various forensic audits pointed to headed by Dr Crispian Olver, we areas of corrupt activity within the brought in a grouping of excellent We have moved very fast on the Metro. officials to lead the offices of the establishment of the Municipal City Manager, Human Settlements Police Force, with the official launch The 2015/16 Budget was in an and Corporate Services; taking place on 13 May, and its advanced stage, pointing to a launch is now imminent in our first potential deficit of R439 million; the These secondments have had a precinct. projection was that the Metro’s cash dramatic effect on efficiencies, and holdings would be entirely used up even our harshest critics admit to Service delivery has bounced back in three years. great improvements here. following the improved efficiencies in the administration: Various major projects, particularly Disciplinary action has been taken the Integrated Public Transport against a significant number of • 4 000 serviced sites have been System and the proposed Metro staff, some of whom have resigned provided thus far this year, and police, were stalled after promising thereafter. One can never suggest 3000 houses have been built beginnings; in many areas, service that an organisation with nearly • 24 km of gravel roads have delivery was underperforming. 10 000 staff is corruption free, but been black-top surfaced, with Labour relations was at a low ebb, plainly the biggest challenges here stormwater channels 2 215 CHAPTER with many unprocedural strikes have now been overcome. homes have been provided happening. with electricity connections THREE The 2015/16 budget was rapidly re- • The Nooitgedacht Low-level Tendering procedures were worked, and is today in surplus. Cash water supply scheme has been extremely slow, causing various holdings have risen by about R600 heavily funded and Phase Two important programmes, like pothole million this year, and now stand at an is nearing completion repairs, to grind to a halt. historic high of over R2 billion. • The Fishwater Flats Waste Treatment plant is being massively upgraded, with 2 hard-surfaces connections extended being installed • Enhance revenue by working on • Weekly waste collection has now • Heritage sights are being repaired overdue accounts been introduced all over the Metro and enhanced • Bring our Supply Chain • Our waste management plans have • The municipal old age homes, Management office up to ISO9001 been augmented with a number of primarily run by private sector industrial standard new vehicles operators, are being taken back • Assist in implementing a new • A new traffic management system by the Metro to improve living financial Chart of Accounts, called has been implemented, resulting conditions for our honoured elderly mSCOA in a great improvement in the citizens collection of fines • Various public works programmes Our Assistance to the Poor Programme • 3 modular libraries have been have created nearly 7 000 job is to be modified to reduce the present handed over to the Kuyga, opportunities endless waiting lists and quicken access Colchester and Zwide communities • Much investment has been (see the next section for details). • Landfill sites have been facilitated, with the recent rehabilitated, and the Kragga announcement that a fourth motor The above is just a fraction of the Kamma Waste Drop-off Centre assembler is to establish itself in the improvements in our systems and our was recently reopened following Metro – the biggest of many existing service delivery undertaken in 2015/16. significant renovations investments • Over R50 million has been spent on These improvements have led to much stormwater control measures Constant communication has seen favourable comment from communities • All high-mast lights now have a great reduction in the number of and the Metro’s stakeholders, and in energy-efficient (and much brighter) unprocedural strikes, although this issue this regard I would like to compliment LED fittings requires more work from Mr Johann Mettler, Acting City Manager, • A tender has been called to all sides. and his team for the great advance in establish universal Wi-Fi availability efficiency we have enjoyed over the last • The Tramways Building has Our 2014/15 financial statements only twelve months. been extensively remodelled by had one qualification (concerning We have come a long way, but there is the MBDA, and a plan for the inadequate leave registers), which still much to do. In the next chapter, we redevelopment of the Port Elizabeth we hope to eliminate in the 2015/16 will assess our plans for the next five Harbour and its neighbouring financials. Consultant suppliers have years, which has become known as the King’s Beach, the old CBD and the been employed to – plan for “Five Golden Years”. Baakens Valley has been finalised • 40 sports facilities are being • Restrict illegal electricity

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FIVE GOLDEN YEARS: 2016 - 2021

4.1 Strategic Development Unemployment levels were higher where carefully selected infrastructure than in the other Metros (37% in investments trigger increased of the Nelson Mandela Nelson Mandela Bay versus 25% economic activity, increased property Bay Metro in and 24% in both prices, and lower unemployment. Tshwane and Cape Town). On assuming office as Executive A pipeline of catalytic urban Mayor in 2015, I was presented with The SDR concluded that the Metro’s development projects must be put in a Strategic Development Review most important focus areas should be place, to develop economic value. (SDR) of our Metro, undertaken by “to address the economic decline These projects must become central experienced consultants, appointed in the areas and build a platform for to the new growth trajectory. by the National Department of inclusive economic growth” Finance. Organisational stability and integrity The Metro’s Organisational planning need to be rebuilt, and the Metro’s It was a bleak document, setting out was fragmented, with at least social partnerships, far too long clearly some facets we possibly know, 28 separate plans addressing neglected, need to be rebuilt. but still need to be confronted with: paths forward. This needed to be consolidated into a single We decided to take these The biggest issue needing our organisational planning process, recommendations to heart, in our attention was the state of the Nelson which would take spatial development forward planning. Mandela Bay economy, which had issues to its core to prevent the full huge problems. sprawl of low density urban form. The budget process needs to begin It was growing slower than the with a “Budget Lekgotla” of the economies of South Africa’s six major political and administrative executive, metros, particularly since 2010. and end with a second one. It was overly dependent on the motor CHAPTER industry, which is experiencing difficult times nationally: In 2002, The Nelson Mandela Bay Municipality FOUR Nelson Mandela Bay was South should reform all activities around Africa’s biggest motor manufacturing development priorities; this must have centre – now it was 12% behind a goal to see Nelson Mandela Bay eThekwini and 14% behind Tshwane. entering a virtual cycle of growth,

4.2 A New Integrated Development • The Metropolitan Spatial Nevertheless, drawing from Plan (IDP) and the creation of the Development Framework recommendations in the Strategic Five Golden Years Document Development Framework and from • The IDP itself the challenges that readily arrived in our lives, we created a document The Integrated Development Plans • The 2016/17 (and onwards) Budget (IDPs) of South African municipalities called “Five Golden Years for Nelson are constructed in five-year cycles, and • The Long-Term Financial Plan Mandela Bay”, which sets out the the current cycle of the 2011-2016 IDP political framework we wish the IDP to • The Back to Basics Workplan, and of the Nelson Mandela Bay Municipality be governed by. This is the core of our has just concluded. • The NMBM Service Delivery and planning going forward for the next five Budget Implementation Plan years and I would now like to present We thus embarked on the creation (SDBIP) this to you. of an IDP for 2016-21, underpinned by input gained through extensive We remain committed to unifying these public participation and stakeholder documents, but it has proved beyond consultation processes and are the institutional capacity of the IDP determined to attempt to integrate the administration to get it in place this following related plans into it: year. With the aid of National Treasury deployed consultants, we believe our • The Built Environment Performance IDP will be a much improved product Plan (BEPP) in 2016, but the goal of the above unification is still ahead of us.

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5.1 Five Golden Years – its In short, a metropole Nelson That a truly non-racial environment Mandela would be proud of. will become the natural order of Vision and Mission things – audiences at sport and Behind every valuable plan lies a Mission cultural events should reflect over Vision and a Mission. Nelson Mandela’s values that we time our Rainbow Nation: living hold up as our Mission: together and recreating together Ours is the only Municipality in the should be our daily pleasure, not world named after our hero and icon, That all should have dignified our occasional responsibility. Nelson Mandela. Our Vision and housing: secure, with electricity, Mission must thus clearly reflect the water, sanitation, regular refuse That the Nelson Mandela Bay unique opportunity and responsibility collection, and an adequate road Municipality will cooperate with that we have, in carrying his name. network; and, with time, universal other levels of government, non- Wi-Fi and up-to-date technology, governmental organisations, the Vision and Mission as well as efficient and inexpensive business community, educational 5 public transport. institutions, development agencies Vision and all others, to effect this mission That all should have access to a full – particularly, helping to create an Nelson Mandela Bay should be a range of quality municipal services, environment conducive to quality metropole that lives to the values of including libraries, sports facilities, schooling for our scholars. its icon, Nelson Mandela. swimming pools, cultural facilities and, in emergencies, efficient fire That, in all our endeavours, the It should become a metropole in and disaster management services, creation of an economy that offers which the young have opportunity; and dignified cemeteries. dignified labour opportunities at working aged people employment, decent wages for all, should become the poor dignity and facilities, the That all should have a clean a core value. aged comfort - and all should have environment, with trees, parks, social justice. nature reserves, beaches and No, we are not there yet – but with special places to share with loved all our energy, we will strive for A metropole that is cohesive socially, ones – all of this should be safe to these values; we, the people of the robust politically and engaged walk in and enjoy, free from the fear only municipality in the world that CHAPTER internationally. of criminals. bears the name of our icon, Nelson Mandela. FIVE A metropole with a stable, efficient That the Nelson Mandela Bay and innovative government with Municipality would play a meaningful financial muscle and a dynamic role in reducing crime levels in accelerating economy delivering our Metro. better livelihoods for all. 5.2 Our Situation has presented us with Five Challenges: • Accommodating a rapidly increasing population of youth • Resolving a looming water crisis • As noted in the Strategic Development Review, our social partnerships require rebuilding • The Metro administration requires the rebuilding of management, motivation, morale and efficiency, and • Our biggest challenge, unquestionably, is tackling poverty and unemployment We will assess these in order. 5.2.1 Accommodating a Rapidly Increasing Population of Youth South Africa is lucky to have a young and growing population. Our young people are determined to study, are energetic and committed to social good. They are potentially our greatest asset.

Stats SA presents an analysis of the population of South Africa, in the five cohorts of youth:

STATS SA – POPULATION 2014 Age Group Black Africans Coloureds Asians Whites 0-4 4 936 601 420 171 99 256 263 301 5-9 4 541 523 428 867 96 953 269 367 10-14 4 308 892 444 983 93 863 280 988 15-19 4 357 984 451 117 101 604 306 851 20-24 4 417 106 427 547 109 618 312 797 Total 22 557 106 427 547 109 618 312 797 Percentage 84.6% 8.2% 1.8% 5.4% Since 1990 +11% -1% -9% -15% Unemployment 48% This points to a number of challenges ahead: • Black Africans under the age of 24, at present, comprise 40% of South Africa’s entire population • It is in this grouping that the problems of family collapse, single parenting, dysfunctional schooling and eventually, a non-existent labour market, are most deeply felt • If we are to avoid an economic, social and political catastrophe developing within this group, all of the institutions of government must adapt to get to grips with the problems this group faces • The Nelson Mandela Bay Municipality’s contribution to a creative solution here will involve at least the following seven strategies, all designed around improving the quality of, and increasing the incidence of, facilities targeting the youth

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In terms of the proposed project, a number of youngsters with adequate matric passes but no resources to enter a university would be chosen, enrolled in the SANDF, and housed in SANDF dormitories. In the mornings they would work at Nelson Mandela Bay schools as maintenance staff, admin people etc., while in the afternoons they would study through a university. They would qualify for EPWP stipends, which could provide food and pocket money.

Thus, over five years they would obtain a degree while performing much-needed social duties at our schools. Through these seven programmes, we hope to create an advanced focus on the needs of young South Africans, and create opportunities for them that would be creative and extensive.

5.2.2 Overcoming a Looming Water Crisis

The graph below gives a clear indication of the water crisis looming in Nelson Mandela Bay.

Our water supply is straight-lining, while our water demand-curve is rising sharply. There is already a shortfall in availability – please see the table below that shows our maximum extraction capacity from our dams. WATER SOURCE YIELD (MI/DAY) Older dams 9 (fully developed) Groendal Dam 11.1 (fully developed) Springs 4.5 (fully developed) Churchill/Impofu 121.6 (fully developed) Kouga Scheme 62.5 (fully developed, raising of the dam is possible) Sundays River Transfer Scheme 70 (extensions and augmentations are possible) Total 278.7 There are a variety of steps we need to This project is our top priority in the area 5. Water Master Plan take to improve this situation; below are of water provision. seven water management options that Water provision remains critical must be developed to their maximum: 2. Nooitgedacht in Nelson Mandela Bay and, in conjunction with the above projects, we Rainwater harvesting Phase 2 of this project is nearly will create a Water Master Plan, which complete, with Phase 3 to begin will plot out usage and availability, Removal of alien invasive thereafter. As the graph above shows, it taking into account all of the above. plants to reduce water use and increases the amount of water available increase run-off – but, based on current consumption, 5.2.3 Rebuilding Social Partnerships Re-use of water (waste water the demand curve rapidly surpasses to industrial and potable the enhanced supply. The Strategic Development Review has standards) pointed to the decayed state of our Nevertheless Nooitgedacht is an urgent relationships with our social partners. Water trading with water users and very necessary project. Our experience over this last year from the Orange River Scheme suggests that this is clearly correct. Desalination of Lower Sundays 3. Fishwater Flats Effluent Usage River return flows Our most valued partners are: Huge sums of money are being spent Construction of the Guerna Kop on this project, and it will be capable of 1. The Coega IDZ Dam on the producing effluent for industrial usage. This institution, situated within the Raising of the 4.Seawater Desalination Nelson Mandela Bay Metro:

Thereafter, the following four major This is unquestionably part of securing • Covers 11 500 hectares of land in developments are necessary. a sustainable water supply in Nelson the Metro 1. Reduction in Water Leaks Mandela Bay. However, a 35 Megalitre/ • Was established in 2 000 day plant today costs over R1 billion, • Is designed on a cluster model, At present, non-revenue water (i.e. and uses massive amounts of electricity with the following clusters: water lost in the system, and which to produce water costing between R10 is never charged for) stands at over and R18 per cubic meter- at present, • Commercial and logistics 40% of all water brought into the Metro water is sold in Nelson Mandela Bay for • Automotive and auto components: from our dams. Frankly, this is a major R3.0 per cubic meter. o Light industry disaster. o Training/academic We have therefore called for proposals o Metals and metallurgy Our intention is to reduce those from private sector experts, which we o Chemicals leaks to less than 20% within will assess in the near future. o Energy two years. This will require o Agro-Processing (aquaculture, significant spending on We plan also to work together with food packaging and food both area and Umgeni Water and the eThekwini processing) meters, and the Municipality on a pilot desalination plant o Mari-culture and coastal elimination of the that they are commissioning. o Advanced manufacturing leaks discovered through meter • Is adjacent to South Africa’s newest analysis.

Coega IDZ Development and most efficient port percentage of this time to the Oceans Economy that the following is available in the document. • Is located on the directly linking Nelson (see later). Existing cooperative arrangements • A World-class Department of Budget and Mandela Bay with Johannesburg/Gauteng must be expanded with working committees on Treasury (Page 4) and Durban specific issues, particularly the Oceans Economy. • Metro Administration (Page 8) • Has excellent rail facilities, which now can • International Co-operation (Page 18) deliver containers to Gauteng within 24 3. Business Chambers and Trade Unions hours Also, there are sections on targets and plans for • Is three traffic lights, on a freeway, from an Both require regular meetings, consensus various service delivery directorates: international airport agreements on a variety of issues, and structured • Has the Eastern Cape’s biggest grouping communication going forward. • Electricity and Energy (Page 10) of building industry professionals in one • Infrastructure and Engineering (Page 10) building 4. Ward Committees • Safety and Security (Page 15) • Is also running the Nelson Mandela Bay • Public Health (Page 16) Logistics Park (NMBLP), 216 hectares of These vital institutions, so necessary in • Transport (Page 16) and administrative suppliers aimed mostly at supporting Ward Councillors and in providing • Sport and Recreation (Page 17) providing logistical support to Volkswagen Council with information from within communities, • Is South Africa’s most successful IDZ, have not had sufficient respect from Council over contributing 5.9% to the Provincial Gross the last years. Domestic Product We anticipate regular meetings and continual Clearly, it possesses expertise and skills that engagements with the above institutions – we are would be wisely employed across the Metro in the business of rebuilding the Nelson Mandela in the pursuit of industrial and commercial Bay Municipality, and the economy of Nelson development. Negotiations on joint ventures Mandela Bay, together. should be undertaken as a matter of priority.

5.2.4 Rebuilding our Municipality into a 2. Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University Motivated Engine for Service Delivery

The Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University is The Five Golden Years Plan has extensive an invaluable source of skills, facilities for training sections on programmes and policies to improve and particularly high-level expertise in specific the quality of the Metro administration. industries. The Vice-Chancellor has mentioned that he wishes to devote a considerable I will not burden the record here – but suggest

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Unquestionably, the greatest challenge will cut our housing backlog in half in just five • Prospective ATTP recipients must apply facing our society is the widespread nature of years – a great achievement. in writing severe poverty, which of course is related to our unemployment rate of 37% of all adults. This will have a dramatic impact on poverty • Households qualify if their combined levels, for these newly housed families will income is less than two State pensions The people want jobs for themselves, have access to electricity and other municipal (R2820 p.m.) decent housing for their families, and quality services – their children can study, they can schooling for their children. refrigerate food and eat warm food, they can • Data in State of the Cities Finances be educed through television, etc. etc. – one 2015 suggest that 59% of Nelson The battle against poverty is the battle to great step in the battle against poverty will be Mandela Bay households earn less than create decent jobs, and the extent of our taken, if we can deliver 6000 units per year R3000 per month – this could be 140 programme to house our people. This will be for five years. 000 households the core of our focus over the next five years, and the following will be our strategies to 6.2 Sustainable Communities and • This application is processed and reduce poverty and unemployment. Municipal Services verified by Nelson Mandela Bay staff 6 6.1 Houses for all Legitimate Citizens Attached to the expansion of RDP housing • From application to assistance takes must go an additional factor, which will between 8 and 24 months As I have written, since 1994, the greatly help in the war on poverty – municipalities in Nelson Mandela Bay have • There are about 80 000 ATTP recipients built and transferred 60 000 RDP/Metro Municipal services, from electricity to now, with a waiting list of possibly 8000, Houses. The housing shortfall in 1993 was libraries, etc., must be extended into and an unknown number eligible in 82 000. Why then do we still have such greenfields developments, as well as terms of Metro criteria backlogs? The answer is twofold: a study services from other levels of government done by Development Partners in 2006 of (schools, clinics) and from the private • Should a class action be launched the occupants of 26 “areas of change”, i.e. sector (shopping facilities, etc.), in terms of against Nelson Mandela Bay, a possible fast-growing poor areas, suggested that 2 of the Metro’s Sustainable Community 70 000 households would have to be 3 new shacks were built by people moving Programme. This must be coordinated and admitted at an additional cost of about around in the Metro (youngsters coming of successfully implemented to turn dormitory R350 million – this would be devastating age to start families, etc.), while 1 of 3 hailed suburbs into areas of real community living. from rural and other urban areas. Plainly, • At present, the Nelson Mandela Bay both these processes are still underway, and 6.3 Expansion of the Nelson Mandela Bay Municipality has expenditure related CHAPTER both are pushing the demand for housing. Municipality’s Assistance to the Poor to ATTP of approximately R346 million Programme per annum – a further R108 million is SIX With the help of Minister Lindiwe Sisulu, written off as bad debt annually, with an our housing budgets have now increased At present, in terms of the Nelson Mandela additional R51 million being written off to around R600 million – enough to ensure Bay Municipality’s Assistance to the Poor as arrear amounts on accounts that are that in the following years around 6 000 RDP (ATTP) Programme – accepted into ATTP houses will be built and transferred annually. If this pace can be maintained, I estimate we • In theory, all ATTP households are audited and verified every 12 months o Properties where owner has 6.4 Creation of Adequate Network of Old • The Nelson Mandela Bay Municipality more than one properties 737 units Age Homes has 36 staff involved in this process o State and municipally The Metro has had a number of Old Age • This system is costly and time owned properties 367 units Homes. The cost of running these has consuming, frustrating the citizens with traditionally been met by the Department of delays and bureaucratic processes and o Garages 2416 units Social Welfare, and the process managed by also difficult to verify and manage o Properties owned by church and private sector operators. non-natural persons 5674 units We therefore propose to implement significant 15 824 units After considerable complaints, we are changes to this Programme, as follows: taking these institutions back under Metro Total eligible units 42 271 units management. • All households valued at R200 000 and less will be automatically eligible to ATTP Phased over four years, starting immediately: When this is running smoothly, we are subsidies (which could change over per annum 10 568 units. committed to creating a plan to expand our time). (The Municipality has all household network of old age homes, to more adequately valuations on record, so this will be easy This ATTP benefit would pass to: service our senior citizens. to control) • Immediately: 10 568 units, where 6.5 Go for Growth – Economic • All existing households receiving ATTP accounts are in arrears Development subsidies, and valued at R200.000 or • Thereafter, 10 568 per annum x 3 years. more, will be able to apply for ATTP • This would see a potential drop in income Our greatest energy will be spent expanding subsidies on the grounds of hardship or to the Nelson Mandela Bay Municipality our economy and its base to deliver decent poverty, otherwise, after 4 years, their of R56.4 million in 2015/16, which we jobs. benefit will be cancelled could legitimately fund out of our bad debt provision This leads to the following calculations: All assessments, auditing etc. of the ATTP be • All properties valued

NELSON MANDELA BAY MUNICIPALITY | 5 GOLDEN YEARS 2016-21 31 NELSON MANDELA BAY MUNICIPALITY | 5 GOLDEN YEARS 2016-21 31 The following is the core of our The Opera House, etc. must host great would qualify to use the projects’ name in intentions here: shows, and a significant entertainment their marketing. profile presented simultaneously. 6.5.1 “Attention-grabber” Projects 6.6.2 Nelson Mandela Bay Metro Premier 6.5.1.2 South Africa’s Company 6.5.1.1 Major Exhibition – “Nelson Economic Forum Mandela Bay Works” Companies that pay at least the Metro To be staged every year at a regular time, (or some such) Minimum Wage and provide Medical Aid Nelson Mandela Bay must create the and Pension Benefits to all staff, pay their South African equivalent of Davos (The Presented over four days in April 2018, municipal bill on time and make a certain World Economic Forum), at which the this major international event will see percentage of their turnover available for South African economy and prospects are presentations at: supporting sporting, cultural, charitable etc. assessed from every angle, and the most institutions in the Metro, would qualify for positive routes forward proposed. • Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University winning this prestigious title and using it in – Scientific and commercial projects, their marketing. This Forum will be focused on bankers, but focusing on the Oceans Economy business people, politicians, etc. and will be • The Tramways Building – the Nelson 6.6.3 Buy Local highly publicised, although attendance by Mandela Bay Tourist Economy the public will be restricted. • The Nelson Mandela Bay Football There have been many such campaigns Stadium – the Nelson Mandela Bay – we will need to find a new way to make 6.6 Campaigns Sports Economy it work in a world flooded by Chinese • Volkswagen Pavilion – the Nelson products. Three campaigns are proposed to be Mandela Bay Motor Industry undertaken in conjunction with local • The Coega IDZ – the Nelson Mandela 6.7 Support for our Flagship Industry – Business Chambers: Bay Manufacturing Industry the Motor Industry • Baywest/Some shopping centres – 6.6.1 Nelson Mandela Bay Metro the Nelson Mandela Bay Commercial 6.7.1 Background Minimum Wage Economy • Red Location – South Africa’s cultural Long the backbone of Nelson Mandela The Nelson Mandela Bay Municipality economy Bay’s economy, our motor industry is should canvas for a Metro Minimum Wage centred on our two major assemblers – of R30-00 per hour. Volkswagen and General Motors. To accompany this exhibition, major sporting and cultural events must be staged - Businesses etc. should be encouraged to Possibly the most heartening new Football, Rugby, Cricket, etc. make this undertaking and, if they do, they investment in this sector in South Africa is the 000 in 2010 to 649 000 in 2013, they have In Nelson Mandela Bay, the local economy recent construction of the First Automotive Works subsequently declined for two successive is highly reliant on this industry, with nearly (FAW) - South Africa’s truck assembly plant in years to 618 000 in 2015. 52 brands, mostly a quarter of local employment being in the Zone 2 of the Coega IDZ’s Automotive cluster. imported, fight for this market. manufacturing sector. • Exports, however, have made up the gap. FAW is China’s oldest and largest vehicle • Projections by NAAMSA for 2016 see these Further, as reported in the Department of manufacturer and has manufactured over 16 trends continuing: Domestic Vehicle sales Finance’s Strategic Development Review, the million vehicles to date – many in joint ventures falling to 618 000 (from 649 000), with Nelson Mandela Bay Manufacturers, who long with Volkswagen, Toyota and Mazda. FAW is exports again filling the gap (from 615 000 to dominated South African motor manufacturing, a Fortune 500 company. Its Coega plant will 660 000) have fallen behind those of eThekwini and initially assemble 5000 trucks per annum, and a • Volkswagen has, of course, problems of its Tshwane in volumes of vehicles manufactured. passenger vehicle line is now in planning. own, with a large number of USA lawyers determined to turn Volkswagen’s recently Hopefully, the arrival of FAW and BAIC will reverse The arrival of FAW in Nelson Mandela Bay is a admitted fraud into a major financial this trend. massive fill-up for the area’s long-existent motor catastrophe for the firm. How this will manufacturing base and tradition, and brings play out in the South African economy is 6.7.2 Way Forward one of the world’s most valued and biggest auto unpredictable manufacturers from the world’s newest and • The Economist (The World in 2016, pg. 106) There is no doubt that the Nelson Mandela Bay largest auto market to Nelson Mandela Bay. argues that General Motors is also having Municipality must engage with the automotive industry problems: it has recently invested $1 billion and work to help it flourish. This validates our auto-manufacturing industry in India, and this, The Economist argues, It is probably wisest to work through the NMBM and sets it on a new growth trajectory. could lead to other GM factories facing Business Chamber for industry-wide solutions to closure. problems, and it is therefore proposed that: The recent announcement that a fourth • The South African Government remains assembler, the Chinese company BAIC, will open a major contributor to this industry, The Nelson Mandela Bay Municipality create, with its doors in Nelson Mandela Bay is wonderful offering an Automotive Production and the NMBM Business Chamber, a Mayoral Forum news that again emphasises that we are open for Development Programme with a variety of dedicated to the growth of Nelson Mandela Bay’s business. tariff protections, allowances, incentives, automotive industry. investment allowances etc. There are, however, four nation-wide trends to consider: This suggests both a governmental commitment to the industry, and a vulnerability to competition • New vehicle sales in South Africa are in within the industry. a cyclical decline: having risen from 493

NELSON MANDELA BAY MUNICIPALITY | 5 GOLDEN YEARS 2016-21 33 NELSON MANDELA BAY MUNICIPALITY | 5 GOLDEN YEARS 2016-21 33 6.8 Establishment of our Next Major training component 2015-2020. • The development of the Nelson Industry – the Oceans Economy 2. Maritime Manufacturing: NMMU Marine Mandela Bay’s 117 km of coastline Composites Materials Centre – small • Wave energy projects 6.8.1 Background and luxury craft – 2015-2020; support for high-end yacht building initiative (SNC 6.9 The Creative Economy • There is more of South Africa in water Tag – Tim Van Den Steene). than on land. 3. Maritime Skills Training and Education: 2 Here we have noted (see Section 5.2.1 • It would appear that Nelson Mandela areas 0 SAIMI focusing on Seafaring of this document) our determination to Bay has a number of characteristics training and NMMU School of Tourism become the Cultural Capital of South that could see it become a world focusing on Maritime (Cruise and Africa – this will unlock a variety of leader in the Oceans Economy: Scientific) Tourism 2015-2020. financial opportunities in the massive It has two harbours situated 4. New Oceanarium: Project to o cultural economy to Nelson Mandela Bay in it, of different ages and Reconceptualise current Bayworld – Residents. The Red Location Cultural characteristics – this makes it NMMU expert team Prof Derek Du Preez, Precinct will be the centre of this creative more flexible than Durban or marine biologists) available to work with economy. Cape Town, where port capacity NMB team. is under pressure 5. Seawater Lab (National Seawater Pollution 6.10 The Township Economy o It has a large and relatively Lab) – possible R36m NMMU lab focusing secluded bay on ocean water quality challenges; in It is an unsatisfactory state-of-affairs that One of its harbours borders on addition to fresh water lab plans; o our dormitory suburbs, where so many South Africa’s best functioning 6. Developing a City-Led Blue Economy of our people live, have very limited IDZ Strategy, led with industry, universities commercial, and almost no industrial, The local University is very and Communities. Prof. Schwartz o life. One can buy alcohol in hundreds advanced in its work on the believes that the Oceans Economy of places, but there are very few coffee Oceans Economy, and its Vice- could see South Africa create another shops. Chancellor sees it as his first 700 000 jobs by 2033. priority for development. We have commissioned researchers at the 6.8.3 The Oceans Economy is an Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University to 6.8.2 The NMMU Vice-Chancellor excellent opportunity for Nelson fully explore the commercial and industrial has sent the Executive Mayor a Mandela Bay to develop a second prospects of the township economy, and Memorandum in this regard, with major economic area, after Motor we are pledged to open up opportunities six Relevant Action Items Manufacturing. here. 1. Marine Food Security: (a) Prof. It must be prioritised, a committee set up Mike Roberts: NMMU Chair with NMMU and Operation Phakisa at the 6.11 Catalytic Projects in Marine Food Security – highest level, and a five-year plan created. locational study on fish The Municipality has identified key farming project; (b) 6.8.4 The areas to concentrate on are: strategic projects, as reflected in the possible NMMU Spatial Development Framework and the Marine Food • Oil and gas mining LED Strategy of the Municipality, with the Technology • Shale gas mining following objectives: and Innovation • Small craft building Centre – • Boat repairs and shipbuilding • Serving as significant catalysts for with a • Maritime food production economic growth; • Small harbour development • Stimulating economic development; • Maritime research institutes • Enabling the City to become nationally and internationally development through the rehabilitation and play will support and enrich future competitive; of the river and the creation of a water adjacent uses. • Creating jobs; body to attract mixed use real estate • Social/Mixed Use Housing: The • Alleviating poverty; property development. Baakens Valley Precinct Plan identifies • Attracting investors and/or tourists; • A pedestrian bridge over the Baakens the development of up to 1000 housing units. • Changing the face of the Metro, and River: The aim of this project is to • The project contributes to • Improving the integration profile of provide pedestrian access between the Metro addressing the challenge of poverty, the heart of the city and the catalytic unemployment and social inequality Baakens/Port Marina precinct, as well through the development of a BAAKENS RIVER PRECINCT as increased parking along Produce diverse economy based on tourism (See Map 1) Street to enable the newly developed real estate. It responds directly to Tramway Building to function the key performance area of Local effectively as a destination for events Economic Development through the The Baakens River Precinct has been for the city. provision of public sector investment conceptualised as an integral part of the • St Peter’s land: The aim is to into infrastructure and will attract Port Marina Precinct, which is concurrently private sector investment. The project refurbish the ruins of the St Peter’s being planned by Transnet. It is envisaged will increase the rates base of the site, landscape the area and provide that the 23 km of pristine Baakens River city and is at the initial phases of a multi-purpose events space. The Valley, together with the sea water implementation. It will also bring much- maintenance and cleaning of the frontage, will be a catalytic project that will needed integration to the area. cemetery and surrounding area will contribute to an alternative economy for the include the Paupers Grave and the MERMAID’S PRECINCT Nelson Mandela Bay Municipality, based on Black Steps. Pedestrian connections (See Map 1) Tourism Real Estate. A number of priority will be provided and lighting to the projects have been identified, as part of the whole area, improved. The project known as the Mermaid’s Baakens River Precinct Plan, in order to • Land assembly and redevelopment: Precinct is located on land in the heart maximise the success of the precinct: The majority of the buildings in the of the CBD between Russell Road and precinct are under-utilised or vacant, the Donkin Row Houses. It is a proposed offering the ideal opportunity to mixed use area comprising social housing, regenerate the historic CBD (central a residential development and urban • Vuyisile Mini Square Upgrade: The aim business district) and put a new recreational node and, complementary of this project is to remove the parking economic heart into it. mixed uses. from the Square and return it to the • The Baakens River Park: The need most important space in the city for its for an attractive environment with A private property owner has begun people. pedestrian/cycle paths that link into re-creating an ambitious and sensitive • The Baakens Valley: The Valley Settlers Park together with a safe and precinct, based on the Donkin Row secure park where people can walk offers significant potential for property houses, Constitution Hill and the areas

NELSON MANDELA BAY MUNICIPALITY | 5 GOLDEN YEARS 2016-21 35 NELSON MANDELA BAY MUNICIPALITY | 5 GOLDEN YEARS 2016-21 35 around Chapel Street. This is an important including North End Lake. Within this area that it once again includes an aquarium, beginning to this project. there are a number of pockets of land sea-water features, a dolphinarium and available where a sport/leisure precinct can other tourist facilities. All the vested rights It is envisaged that the Municipality, in be developed. This will not only enhance of Bayworld reside with the DSRAC conjunction with the MBDA, the private the Stadium asset itself, but also create a (Provincial Department of Sports, sector and a social housing institution, will new sport/tourism/leisure node. Not only Recreation, Arts and Culture). develop the area. Presently, funding is a will the project be enhancing the value of constraint in taking the project forward, although there is considerable private the Stadium asset, but will also address A proposal that the operations and sector investment in various developments the objective of developing another sector management of the facility be handed in the precinct. in the Nelson Mandela Bay economy, i.e. over to the NMBM was made to the The development of the Mermaid’s tourism/real estate. It is common cause DSRAC. The NMBM will enter into an Precinct is identified as one of the that the City’s economy is over-dependent agreement with the Department of Sports, Catalytic Projects aligned to the CBD and on motor manufacturing, and tourism is one Recreation, Arts and Culture and later Baakens Valley precinct development. The of the most logical economic drivers. hand over the facility to the MBDA for project has been through a preliminary project management purposes. The viability assessment by the DBSA Project HUMERAIL PRECINCT MBDA will therefore be responsible for the Preparation Facility, which concluded that (See Map 3) final design, sourcing the funding, which it is viable. will be around R250 million, overseeing The Humerail Precinct is located on land construction and the appointment of The redevelopment of this land can belonging to Transnet. Other than the old an operator, as per case of the Nelson integrate socio-economic groups from Railway Clubhouse, the rest of the facilities Mandela Bay Stadium. a recreation, economic and residential are not used at all and are in a run-down perspective and impact on the rest state. The site affords majestic views and is of the CBD and the broader Metro. A A Provincial Cabinet Memorandum has Development Master Plan has been ideal for tourism real estate and mixed use been prepared and submitted to the prepared, and the next step is to prepare development, i.e. residential, retail, office Department’s HOD, the Director-General of detailed proposals with implementation and leisure/entertainment. There is strong DSRAC, for approval. plans. potential for involving the private sector in the development, which is the ideal site for Although Bayworld was always a tourism NORTH END LAKE AND NELSON an International Convention Centre. icon, it is believed that this facility can be MANDELA BAY STADIUM PRECINCT redeveloped, not only for tourism purposes, (See Map 2) Other than talking to Transnet locally about but also for scientific research and the Metro’s vision for the land, no planning educational purposes. In this regard, the The NMBM has mandated the MBDA to work has been done yet. There is a need Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University is oversee the process of procuring and for high level intervention with Transnet to our partner. appointing a new Stadium Operator realise this project. from 01 July 2016. That process This will not only ensure the further is on-going. The objective BAYWORLD (See Map 3) enhancement of tourism real estate in with the new process will the City, but will also contribute to urban not only be the operation Bayworld was one of the key tourism renewal along the beachfront, and to of the Stadium itself, attractions in the region. The facility is in educational and scientific objectives. but also looking at a state of collapse and has been facing possibilities of funding challenges, especially after developing the closing of the Oceanarium. Due to the Stadium the importance of this facility, a special precinct intervention needs to be made in order to ensure the revival of this facility. Plans are WATERFRONT DEVELOPMENT - PORT / TELKOM PARK / HAPPY VALLEY (See BAAKENS PRECINCT Map 3) (See Map 3) A Local Spatial Development Framework (LSDF) was developed by the MBDA and There has been recent focus on plans to approved by Council for the redevelopment develop the Waterfront at the King’s Beach of this precinct. Future development will be area. After initially agreeing to move the tank around retail, residential, office and tourism/ farm in 2016, Transnet has now indicated leisure/entertainment development. An that the oil tanks will be demolished only in Expression of Interest (EOI) was developed 2017/18, as the facility at Coega first needs and released in May 2014. Based on to be completed. Transnet has committed the input of the Expressions of Interest, to move the manganese ore facility to the a Request for Proposal (RFP) is being Coega IDZ in 2019. In the port planning developed to start releasing the land for post-relocation, Transnet has agreed that a development. This RFP will be based on a portion of land will be set aside for a marina/ Precinct Plan and Development Guidelines, commercial development and that this portion prepared for this purpose. While the site will not fall under the strict port security for an International Conference Centre MERMAID’S PRECINCT (See Map 1) controls. has been identified, this decision has been revoked, as the preferred site for an ICC A Steering Committee comprising Transnet, has now changed to Humerail. The RFP the MBDA, the NMBM and the ECDC is will therefore be advertised without the ICC currently working to ensure there is a Master component. Plan to determine the extent and depth of retail, residential, office, leisure/entertainment/ tourism development, as well as a Master APPLE EXPRESS Plan that can be implemented over time. The Port/Baakens precinct between the Port The Apple Express, one of the key tourism and the Bridge Street Brewery, as part of products in Nelson Mandela Bay, was the broader Waterfront Development plan, is unfortunately stopped from operating. envisaged to become a new tourism/leisure/ In order to revive the Apple Express, a entertainment precinct and will be a further study has been done to ascertain the catalyst for the re-development of the area development potential of real estate, freight, over time for non-industrial purposes. passenger and tourism. With the study conducted, it was clear that this line could not only be developed for tourism purposes as this will not be sustainable, but needs to be developed along the four purposes outlined above. Bay West Shopping Mall is very keen to have the line up and running between the Humewood Station and the Mall. DONKIN ROW HOUSES (See Map 1)

NELSON MANDELA BAY MUNICIPALITY | 5 GOLDEN YEARS 2016-21 37 NELSON MANDELA BAY MUNICIPALITY | 5 GOLDEN YEARS 2016-21 37 RED LOCATION PRECINCT was considered essential to upgrade of Njoli and Daku Roads to (See Map 4) Singapi Street as a major tourism accommodate traffic flow approach route to the Red Location, through a compact four-legged Located in the historic Red Location one which could in turn maximise intersection; area of Ibhayi, the precinct consists the tourism opportunities for the • Accommodation of development of the Apartheid Museum, Art Gallery, residents of the area themselves and components on the four Electronic Library and Back-packers enable them to develop a vibey street quadrants surrounding the Lodge. The Apartheid Museum was similar to Vilakazi Street in Soweto, intersection, such as commercial completed in 2004. The Art Gallery Johannesburg, celebrating the art, development, medical suites, and Electronic Library buildings are culture and heritage of New Brighton. space for a future library and civil complete and were handed over to building, and stalls for informal Council in April 2011. The performing The precinct will play a significant traders and a Modal Transport arts complex and school of music role as a cultural/tourism node and interchange; form the last two phases of the can be directly linked with the Port • Promoting pedestrian precinct. The Business Plan for the Elizabeth CBD by means of the New accommodation through safe performing arts complex is complete Brighton Railway Station, which is and controlled crossing points; and the National Department of Arts within walking distance. • Accommodating future IPTS and Culture has committed to fund stations on the approaches to this. It is anticipated that through the It will furthermore complement and the intersection and construction of the performing arts strengthen not only the Njoli Hub, but • Accommodating all minibus-taxi complex, 634 jobs will be created and also the Khulani Corridor. operations in one facility at or that 701 people will be employed in close to the existing off-street the Red Location Precinct when fully NJOLI SQUARE DEVELOPMENT facility. operational. Njoli Square is in the heart of one The infrastructure: roads, stormwater, The Singapi Street project is being of the oldest dormitory suburbs in water, sewerage and electrical implemented in order to ensure Port Elizabeth. The multi-million rand connections, a taxi rank and that local economic development in redevelopment initiative around the space for informal traders will be so-called township areas is aligned historic Njoli Square will contribute implemented in the next financial to the urban renewal initiatives to creating a dignified space within a year, while the balance of the project within the inner city. The Iconic previously marginalised community. will be advertised in terms of a Red Location Project received It is aimed specifically at economic Request for Proposals to attract approximately 150 000 visitors upliftment. private sector development. per annum when the Museum is open. The The project comprises of the access roads were following: in a sad state of disrepair and it • Reconfiguration of the junction VAN DER KEMP’S KLOOF play the same role that Lanseria has played for Johannesburg. The project will not only The Van Der Kemp’s Kloof project help create jobs in the Uitenhage area, but stretches from Helenvale to Chatty (beyond will re-affirm Uitenhage as a logistics hub Booysens Park), including Chatty Gorge for the Nelson Mandela Bay region. A pre- east of Stanford Road, up to the Hopewell feasibility study has to be prepared to prove Conservation Area. It is a vast natural area the above. of scenic beauty, with great opportunities and potential to be developed holistically UITENHAGE RAILSHEDS and in an environmentally sensitive way. (See Map 5) The area offers an opportunity for the development of hiking trails, picnic sites, Phase 1 of this project was the recreational dams, game farming, gorge development of the NMB Science and activities, adventure sport, tourism facilities Technology Centre. The centre currently and accommodation, and is envisaged as a welcomes over 12,000 visitors annually and major recreation and conservation node in supports 34 township schools through in- the city. house and outreach programmes including teacher development. The Kloof has been divided into different BAYWORLD FACILITY nodes; the Kuyga node, which was In Phase 2 of this project the UDDI is completed at the end of October 2010, and working on developing a business plan for a the Grootkloof Node, which accommodates Skills Hub. The Skills hub will focus on the an Education Centre, was completed at the Creative Industries and will be developed end of 2014. Work on the Mountain Bike in partnership with SETAs. It will focus on and Hiking Trail commenced in November developing critical skills for artisans. 2010 and is also complete. The short to medium-term plan is to find investors who The rest of the land which abuts phases will help develop and manage some of the 1 and 2 has gone out on request for proposed facilities and activities; however, proposal for a private retail development. this will require the Nelson Mandela The transaction is in the process of being Bay Municipality to source funding to finalised. provide basic infrastructure so as to show commitment to the project. MOTHERWELL CENTRE (See Map 6) UITENHAGE AERODROME (See Map 5) The Motherwell Township is very high The project is aimed at developing the on the transformation agenda of the Uitenhage Aerodrome as an Incubator Hub Municipality, primarily because of its for Light Engineering, Logistics and Aviation establishment history as a dormitory town activities, adjacent to both KwaNobuhle for the Markman Industrial Area. It is under- and the Uitenhage Industrial area. It is serviced in terms of economic and social envisaged that this regional Aerodrome will WAREFRONT DEVELOPMENT - PORT / BAAKENS PRECINCT

NELSON MANDELA BAY MUNICIPALITY | 5 GOLDEN YEARS 2016-21 39 NELSON MANDELA BAY MUNICIPALITY | 5 GOLDEN YEARS 2016-21 39 facilities and amenities, and where these the Integrated Public Transport System development of this node envisaged as a facilities and amenities exist, the quality (IPTS). Detailed precinct planning will be high density integrated and mixed housing is sub-standard. Major extensions to the undertaken during the 2016/17 period. area. The development of Fairview is township area (Motherwell Extensions being rolled out through six projects, 12, 29, 30 and 31) are currently under The planning of a future passenger rail namely William Moffat Expressway, construction as part of the NMBM link between Port Elizabeth CBD and Circular Drive, Willow Road Upgrade, Human Settlements Programme. This Motherwell via a proposed new Motherwell Fairview Links, Willowdene and Fairview development, which is rolled out as an Rail Corridor parallel to Tyinira Street West. The total number of residential integrated residential development, (Motherwell) is well under way. There is units is estimated at 4 488. The reason will yield almost 12 500 residential a long-term possible linkage between for choosing Fairview for mixed retail and opportunities, home to approximately Coega and Uitenhage. This is a high- mixed residential development is that it is 50 000 people. A proposed private sector priority project driven by PRASA and it centrally located in the Metro, alongside development to the North of Motherwell is currently being assessed in terms of retail development and access roads and (Coega Ridge) will, if developed to full NEMA processes. close to job opportunities. A new retail potential, yield another 25 000 to 30 000 development (shopping centre) is currently residential opportunities (100 000 to FAIRVIEW MIXED HOUSING under construction, while the construction 120 000 people). (See Map 7) of a 300-bed private hospital is about to commence. It is against this background that a Special Fairview is located within a 6 - 8 km radius Secondary Hub has been identified at the from the CBD and is adjacent to the The status of the projects is that the centre of Motherwell around the Motherwell William Moffat Expressway and Circular Fairview Links Social Rental Project is Shopping Centre and Clinic. Other existing Drive activity corridors. It forms part of a completed with 365 residential units. The facilities, such as a Thusong Centre (to land restitution area, from where large infrastructure and service installation for be redeveloped as a Traffic Centre), the numbers of people were relocated. A Willowdene, comprising 400 residential Motherwell Community Centre and the number of housing projects, comprising units, is nearly complete. Construction of higher density Sakhasonke housing project mixed residential typologies aimed at the residential units is about to commence are located in this node. The node will the lower income groups, contribute as a private sector development. A further also serve as the terminal point for the to the area being identified as an area 48 ha has been awarded by the Provincial Khulani Corridor, as well as future of substantial spatial development Department of Human Settlements, on modal interchange for and enormous potential to illustrate which an estimated 2 023 residential spatial transformation. The area is also units will be constructed. The detailed identified as a Mega Project in the Human development planning has commenced Settlements Programme. and it is also a private sector development.

The key strategy for this Growth Area is focused on densification and spatial transformation, with the BLOEMENDAL ARTERIAL

The Bloemendal Arterial (2.5 km) forms Stanford Road. The Bloemendal Arterial will part of a critical link connecting the cut across the greenfields component of the Njoli and Chatty Jachtvlakte Hubs. The Zanemvula Mega Project. The Zanemvula entire link road forms part of longer-term Mega Project includes the new greenfields Comprehensive Integrated Transport residential developments of Joe Slovo RED LOCATION PRECINCT Plan and is 9 km in total. The link road West, Bethelsdorp North, Khayamnandi, the will strengthen the urban network strategy Chatty developments and the Jachtvlakte/ by linking it spatially and will improve KwaNobuhle extensions currently in the connectivity between areas, which planning stage and will yield in the order of will increase economic activity. Once 54 000 residential opportunities, once fully developed, the link road will serve as an developed. Approximately 14 000 units have essential transport collector that will fast- already been completed and are in need of track development in a predominantly poor social facilities and amenities. area and will serve as a catalyst towards commercial development in the area and Phase 1 of the Bloemendal Arterial other social facilities, which has been consists of the detailed design and constrained due to lack of access. preparation of tender documents for the construction of the road; this is funded by The Bloemendal Arterial component of the the National Treasury. Phase 2 will involve link road will serve as an important North/ implementation - funding must still be South linkage between the and sourced.

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In line with its mandate to upgrade A development Master Plan has been and will assist in addressing some of areas that have seen some form of drafted, with input from the community the socio-economic ills plaguing the environmental decay, the MBDA, of the area on how they see the area community. through assistance with funding redeveloped over the next 5 to 20 from the IDC, initiated a Master Plan years. The Implementation of the Plan process in Schauderville and Korsten. started in the 2015 financial period. This environmental and urban The aim of the Master Plan was residential upgrading intends to identify, through a broad public to redress the decay that persisted, participation process, projects that are especially after the 1990 protest practicable and implementable, are in actions in these areas. tune with the context of the area UITENHAGE RAILSHEDS NJOLI SQUARE DEVELOPMENT

FAIRVIEW MIXED HOUSING FAIRVIEW MIXED HOUSING

NELSON MANDELA BAY MUNICIPALITY | 5 GOLDEN YEARS 2016-21 43 NELSON MANDELA BAY MUNICIPALITY | 5 GOLDEN YEARS 2016-21 43 MAP 1 CATALYTIC PROJECTS | 5 GOLDEN YEARS 2016-21 MAP 1 CATALYTIC PROJECTS | 5 GOLDEN YEARS 2016-21 MAP 2 NORTH END LAKE & NMB STADIUM PRECINCT | 5 GOLDEN YEARS 2016-21

NELSON MANDELA BAY MUNICIPALITY | 5 GOLDEN YEARS 2016-21 45 MAP 3 CATALYTIC PROJECTS | 5 GOLDEN YEARS 2016-21 MAP 3 CATALYTIC PROJECTS | 5 GOLDEN YEARS 2016-21 MAP 4 RED LOCATION CULTURAL PRECINCT | 5 GOLDEN YEARS 2016-21

NELSON MANDELA BAY MUNICIPALITY | 5 GOLDEN YEARS 2016-21 47 MAP 35 CATALYTIC PROJECTS UITENHAGE | 5 GOLDEN | YEARS 5 GOLDEN 2016-21 YEARS 2016-21 MAP 35 CATALYTIC PROJECTS UITENHAGE | 5 GOLDEN | YEARS 5 GOLDEN 2016-21 YEARS 2016-21 MAP 6 KHULANI CORRIDOR / MOTHERWELL CENTRE | 5 GOLDEN YEARS 2016-21

NELSON MANDELA BAY MUNICIPALITY | 5 GOLDEN YEARS 2016-21 49 CONCLUSION

I have told a lengthy story – of the disastrous society created by apartheid; of the revolt by ordinary people that eventually overthrew the apartheid political order; of the mess that was then handed over to the African National Congress to rebuild; of the remarkable achievements in Nelson Mandela Bay by our Municipality and its predecessors in bringing economic efficiencies, social justice and individual liberties to our people; and of all of these developments.

I have candidly and truthfully analysed our present situation – and laid out our challenges in terms of water supply, job creation and poverty reduction, and of providing opportunities for the youth of Nelson Mandela Bay.

I have given you plenty of detail about our society, and some depth to our plans to rebuild it over the next five years.

I humbly ask you, all our citizens, to join us in this rebuilding - the next step in remaking a society wrecked by apartheid. 7 I have described to you our plans to turn the next five years into Five GoldenYears of Nelson Mandela Bay. Please join us in these plans!

Sincerely

D.A. JORDAAN EXECUTIVE MAYOR - NELSON MANDELA BAY CHAPTER SEVEN NELSON MANDELA BAY MUNICIPALITY | 5 GOLDEN YEARS 2016-21 51 NELSON MANDELA BAY MUNICIPALITY | 5 GOLDEN YEARS 2016-21 51 Nelson Mandela Bay Municipality Town Hall Port Elizabeth 6000

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