Promoting Caring Cities – the Case of South Africa’S Metropoles
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PROMOTING CARING CITIES – THE CASE OF SOUTH AFRICA’S METROPOLES ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Authors: Tanya Zack, Robin Hamilton, Eduardo Cachucho, Samuel Suttner Project management: Sithole Mbanga and Thoko Vukea (SACN) Editing and Layout: Write to the Point Graphics and Illustrations: Eduardo Cachucho Acknowledgement is given to Standard Bank for funding the study and contributing with case studies. The following teams and individuals contributed case study material: SA cities’ Knowledge Managers Reference Group for their contribution and effort to produce case studies within their municipalities, namely: Buffalo City Metropolitan Municipality, City of Cape Town Metropolitan Municipality, eThekwini Metropolitan Municipality, Ekurhuleni Metropolitan Municipality, City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality, Mangaung Metropolitan Municipality, Msunduzi Metropolitan Municipality, Nelson Mandela Bay Metropolitan Municipality and City of Tshwane Metropolitan Municipality. WASSUP in collaboration with Sticky Situations, Bicycle Empowerment Network, Masicorp, Branson Centre of Entrepreneurship, The Johannesburg Development Agency (JDA), The Ministry for Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs (CoGTA) ABOUT THIS REPORT This paper has been developed in preparation for the Metropolis Annual Meeting, hosted in Johannesburg in July 2013. The conceptual framing of the caring city draws heavily on the work of South African urban scholar Professor Susan Parnell. She also assisted the team in conceptualising the caring city within current academic debates. VIDEO This report is accompanied by a video presentation which is freely available online: http://goo.gl/4oGxy PROMOTING CARING CITIES – THE CASE OF SOUTH AFRICA’S METROPOLES 2 | Page PROMOTING CARING CITIES – THE CASE OF SOUTH AFRICA’S METROPOLES 3 | Page TABLE OF CONTENTS Acknowledgements ...................................................................................................... 2 About this report .......................................................................................................... 2 Video ............................................................................................................................. 2 Table of Contents ......................................................................................................... 4 Abstract ........................................................................................................................ 6 Conceptualising the Caring City .................................................................................... 8 Context ..................................................................................................................... 9 Fairness and Caring in Cities ................................................................................... 11 Why Caring Matters ................................................................................................ 12 Towards Caring Cities ............................................................................................. 13 Framing the Caring City .............................................................................................. 15 The Institutional Framework of Caring ................................................................... 15 Sustaining Caring .................................................................................................... 16 Programmes of Care ............................................................................................... 16 Caring in cities of South Africa .................................................................................... 18 Case studies that showcase planning in South African metropoles ........................... 23 Strategic Spatial Planning ....................................................................................... 24 Johannesburg Growth Management Strategy .................................................... 24 Community-based Planning .................................................................................... 25 Ward-based planning – Buffalo City ................................................................... 25 Community-based planning – Johannesburg ..................................................... 26 Case studies that showcase infrastructure development in South African metropoles .................................................................................................................................... 28 Infrastructure-led Upgrading of Informal Settlements ........................................... 28 Upgrading informal settlements – Cape Town ................................................... 28 Electrification of informal settlements – Tshwane ............................................. 30 Electrification of Khotsong informal settlement – Mangaung ............................ 31 Reducing contamination of drinking water – Ekurhuleni ................................... 31 WASSUP – Johannesburg .................................................................................... 31 Transportation Infrastructure Development .......................................................... 33 An intermodal public transport hub – Mangaung .............................................. 33 Rea Vaya transport – Johannesburg ................................................................... 33 Bicycling Empowerment Network – Cape Town ................................................. 35 Information and Communications Technology ...................................................... 36 The Smart Cape Access Project – Cape Town ..................................................... 36 Recreation Facilities ................................................................................................ 37 Green outdoor gyms – Johannesburg ................................................................. 37 Area-wide Upgrading .............................................................................................. 38 Regeneration of Motherwell – Nelson Mandela Bay .......................................... 38 Urban regeneration – Cape Town ....................................................................... 38 Energy-efficient Infrastructural Development ........................................................ 39 Solar energy - Ekurhuleni .................................................................................... 39 Solar water heating and Standard Bank – Nelson Mandela Bay ......................... 40 Wonderbags for cooking – eThekwini ................................................................ 40 Landfills: converting gas to electricity – eThekwini and Johannesburg .............. 41 PROMOTING CARING CITIES – THE CASE OF SOUTH AFRICA’S METROPOLES 4 | Page OR Tambo Environmental Education and Narrative Centre – Ekurhuleni .......... 42 Solar power for heating water – Johannesburg .................................................. 43 Efficient fires, reducing pollution – Ekurhuleni ................................................... 44 Urban Agriculture ................................................................................................... 44 Consolidating urban agriculture – Buffalo City ................................................... 45 Community support farms – eThekwini ............................................................. 45 Support for urban agriculture – Tshwane ........................................................... 46 Greening of the inner city – Johannesburg ......................................................... 46 Bertrams Food Garden – Johannesburg ............................................................. 47 Urban Agriculture Support Programme – Cape Town ........................................ 47 Case studies that showcase social support in South African Metropoles .................. 48 Social Protection ..................................................................................................... 48 Support for the poor – Buffalo City .................................................................... 48 Expanded Social Package – Johannesburg .......................................................... 49 Support for the indigent – Tshwane ................................................................... 50 Support for Homeless and Indigent People ............................................................ 50 Reintegrating street people – Cape Town .......................................................... 50 Assisting the destitute and vulnerable on the streets – Johannesburg .............. 50 Residential care for the vulnerable – Johannesburg .......................................... 51 Healthcare .............................................................................................................. 51 Using sport to increase HIV/AIDS awareness – Buffalo City ............................... 52 A door-to-door HIV/AIDS awareness campaign – Johannesburg ....................... 52 Revamped mobile clinics – Msunduzi ................................................................. 52 A clinic for men – Johannesburg ......................................................................... 53 Antiretroviral treatment clubs – Cape Town ...................................................... 54 Empowerment and Support of Women ................................................................. 55 Coaching for hope – Cape Town ......................................................................... 55 Challenging violence against