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FF F Msukaligwa Local 1e- + Municipality AMENDED 2020 / 2021 IDP ii Foreword by the Executive Mayor Since the dawn of democracy, practitioners of public affairs have been called upon to refine and rationalize the various forms of public engagements to ensure the best outcomes for all stakeholders. Public management and governance has seen a myriad of demands on the rules of engagement, implementation of decisions and accounting for outcomes. Our local government sphere often faces the perennial demands to achieve more with disproportionately meagre resources. This scenario calls for closer interaction and appreciation of priorities as modern society becomes more diverse, not only on cultures or values but also on generational tastes and expectations. Maximum attendance, meaningful participation, rational expectations, are virtues than still need to be cultivated further if we are to emerge from consultations with the requisite outcome of our consultation. The advent of the Corona-virus and the subsequent declaration of the lockdown, might put a damper on our consultation. Public participation as we know it has been restricted to video conferencing or other form of electronic communication. This method has a potential of polarising communities and create some form of unnecessary 'class struggle'. We all appreciate the dire choices we faced and have left no stone unturned in ensuring that all forms of communication are utilized to bring the message of consultation home. Inadvertently, the lockdown regulations confined residents to their homes and it could be assumed that they were therefore available to listen to the radio and had the time to read the publications we sent out. It is also not far-fetched to imagine a more coherent community brought closer together by a common commitment to fight the pandemic. This newfound co-operation could boil over to a bond of more unified residents, readily available for progressive IDP inputs. The days of seeing the IDP consultation as some exercise of wide wish-list are dwindling as budgets are severely constrained and such information being shared with the community on a growing scale. By now there should be a general realization that the triple challenge of unemployment, inequality and poverty has emptied the municipal purse, the list of indigent consumers are growing by thousands. These are some of the factors that determine the result of the IDP. We appreciate the participation of the community, through radio talks, WhatsApp messages, and other voice messages. We remain committed to serve, taking nothing for granted. Let us all observe the protocol of preventing the spread of Covid-19. Msukaligwa Amended Integrated Development Plan 2020-2021 iii Overview by the Municipal Manager As we present the municipality’s 2020/2021 Revised Integrated Development Plan, we are mindful of the fact that this is the fourth revision of our five year IDP ending June 2022. In the five-year IDP, there are number of targets that have been set for us to achieve. As we are almost at the end of our five-year IDP with only one financial year left, it is time we review how far we have performed on implementation of our IDP. The implementation of this IDP has not been an easy one over the past three years as we had to deal with number of challenges. We have however managed to address some of the challenges while we are still grappling with others. We have a constitutional mandate as a municipality to structure and manage the administration, budgeting and planning processes to give priority to the basic needs of the community, and to promote the social and economic development of the community. To overcome the challenges we are facing to deliver on our Constitutional mandate, it calls for us to work together with our communities, stakeholders and sector departments. We have mentioned in the previous year that our main challenges centres around (i) aged infrastructure; (ii) inadequate capacity of our infrastructure to optimally carry the population growth demand; and (iii) insufficient maintenance budget leading to sporadic water pipes bursts, sewer blockages and spillages, power outages and poor road infrastructure. Some of the challenges that are setting us back are manmade and have significant impact in rendering services to our communities. These include illegal services connection, theft of copper cables and arson which are impeding on the effective delivery of services to our communities. Servicing of the Eskom bill also remains a challenge as substantial amount of funds are being channelled to service the account. Over and above the challenges we are experiencing, we have over the past three years managed to deliver on most of our planned projects and programmes which amongst others include water and sewer reticulation at formalized informal settlements, upgrading of roads and initiated bulk infrastructure projects which are currently running. The municipality’s audit outcome continues to be an area of concern as we have once again received an adverse audit opinion. We will continue to work hard on the implementation of audit action plan to improve on our future audit. Though we did not do well on the overall audit opinion, there has been an improvement on performance management from which we have received a qualified audit opinion. As much as we have seen improvements on our capital grants expenditure over the past years, we have experienced a setback on the implementation of some projects in the 2019/2020 financial year due the COVID 19 pandemic in which we had to reprioritise our projects and programmes to respond to the COVID 19 pandemic. The reprioritization of projects had therefore led to funds being redirected to the essential services during the pandemic being water and sanitation. The projects that had been suspended while addressing Msukaligwa Amended Integrated Development Plan 2020-2021 iv the COVID 19, will be continued with in the ensuing financial years. Our long term plans in the implementation of our IDP is to be proactive on our planning and remain determined, resilient and dedicated to deliver effective services to the communities we serve. The COVID 19 pandemic had also affected the municipality negatively on revenue collection as economic activities were suspended during the lockdown and many people left without income. We are however hopeful that as the economic activities are gradually returning, the municipality will be back to its normal operations. Msukaligwa Amended Integrated Development Plan 2020-2021 5 Table of Contents 1 PART A: INTRODUCTION, MUNICIPAL VISION AND ANALYSIS 14 1.1 INTRODUCTION 14 1.2 VISION, MISSION AND CORPORATE VALUES 18 1.3 POLICY AND LEGISLATIVE CONTEXT 19 1.4 NATIONAL AND PROVINCIAL PLANNING FRAMEWORKS AFFECTING MSUKALIGWA MUNICIPALITY 19 1.4.1 NATIONAL SPATIAL DEVELOPMENT PERSPECTIVE .......................................................................................................................................................... 19 1.4.2 MPUMALANGA RURAL DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME (MRDP) ....................................................................................................................................... 19 1.4.3 THE MPUMALANGA ECONOMIC GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT PATH ............................................................................................................................. 20 1.4.4 MEDIUM TERM STRATEGIC FRAMEWORK 2019-2024 (MTSF) ........................................................................................................................................ 22 1.4.5 GOVERNMENT PRIORITY OUTCOMES ............................................................................................................................................................................... 22 1.4.6 THE NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT PLAN .............................................................................................................................................................................. 23 1.4.7 BACK TO BASICS ............................................................................................................................................................................................................... 29 1.4.8 STATE OF THE NATION ADDRESS 2020 ................................................................................................................................................................... 30 1.4.9 DISTRICT DEVELOPMENT MODEL (DDM) ........................................................................................................................................................................ 35 1.4.10 ALIGNMENT OF THE IDP TO THE NATIONAL, PROVINCIAL AND DISTRICT OBJECTIVES .......................................................................... 36 1.4.11 METHODOLOGY IN COMPILING OR REVIEWING THE IDP ................................................................................................................................................. 38 1.4.12 COMMUNITY CONSULTATIVE PROCESS ............................................................................................................................................................................ 40 1.4.13 COMMUNITY NEEDS ANALYSIS PER WARD ..................................................................................................................................................................... 42 1.4.14 SUMMARY OF COMMUNITY AND STAKEHOLDERS INPUT ................................................................................................................................................