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THE FIGHT AGAINST COVID-19 Drones Can Be Sent up to Act As Support www.salga.org.za ISSUE 32 THE FIGHT AGAINST COVID-19 INSIDE: ETHICS | DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION | PARTNERSHIPS | YOUTH ENTREPRENEURSHIP SALGA VOICE COVER Final.indd 1 2020/08/03 12:58 PM ToCheck_FP.indd 2 2020/07/08 10:01 AM 10 CONTENTS ISSUE 32, INSIDE THIS ISSUE 18 DRONE TECHNOLOGY THE BULLETIN Drones are taking to the skies to POLICY ISSUES aid better service delivery, improve 34 SECTION 139 community safety and assist with With many municipalities under COVID-19 awareness e orts. We explore administration grappling with expensive how municipalities are harnessing the legal challenges, service delivery protests potential of this powerful new technology and spiralling debt, SALGA and CoGTA question the e cacy of the Constitution’s 20 DATA COLLECTION Section 139 intervention in supporting Without su cient data, South Africa’s local government response to COVID-19 will collapse 39 WORD FROM PARLIAMENT YOUTH MATTERS A roundup of the issues SALGA continues 44 22 YOUTH FORUM to represent in the interests of its member Making sure that the programmes municipalities within the parliamentary UPFRONT designed to empower the youth are not policy-making and oversight processes 2 EDITORIAL DELIVERY derailed during the pandemic period An overdue awakening indeed IN ACTION 25 ENTREPRENEURSHIP 40 PROFESSIONALISING LOCAL 5 FROM THE CEO To successfully make a dent in the GOVERNMENT A mixed bag of good and bad news unemployment statistics, youth Accountability and ethical leadership unemployment should be tackled are contributing factors to the poor through an inclusive approach performance of municipalities THE PULSE PLUGGED IN MUNICIPAL MATTERS 43 ASSET MANAGEMENT 6 THE COMPLEXITIES OF COVID19 29 CITY OF JOHANNESBURG SALGA, in partnership with the Federation How are municipalities dealing with The City of Johannesburg Housing of Canadian Municipalities, hosted its rst the challenges and opportunities of the Department’s sustainable efforts asset management summit as part of the global COVID-19 pandemic towards service delivery led o them Building Inclusive Green Municipalities scooping an iconic international award project in the Eastern Cape 10 A PRACTICAL RESPONSE TO COVID19 from the United Nations We highlight some of the practical 44 INTERNATIONAL NEWS service delivery successes municipalities 30 ELECTRIFYING COMMUNITIES The COVID-19 outbreak has exacerbated have implemented Mining company Glencore Mine many of the faults that we already knew Operations is investing in the welfare of existed. But, it also brings the promise of IN THE HEADLINES local communities within the areas in positive change and hope. We highlight 14 ETHICS which it operates the priorities of the April 2020 United Ethical leadership is paramount Cities and Local Governments (UCLG) to upholding good governance in 33 PARTNERSHIPS presidency meeting local government SALGA has partnered with the Japan International Cooperation Agency to curb water shortages in local municipalities THE LONG VIEW and increase training capacity 16 INNOVATION 16 CONTACT TRACING 36 AUDIT REPORT Technology can help constrain the SALGA responds to the AGSA’s 2018/2019 COVID-19 pandemic, but to what extent audit outcomes should it infringe on our privacy? We take a look at how digital apps might be used in contact tracing to help limit future outbreaks ISSUE 32 VOICE OF LOCAL GOVERNMENT 1 SALGA32_Contents.indd 1 2020/08/03 10:26 AM EDITORIAL DELIVERY AN OVERDUE UPFRONT AWAKENING INDEED Acting Director, Marketing & Communication: Buhle Ngwenya ime magazine recently called the US’s fight against systemic racism an overdue Communication & Marketing Officer: awakening. This analogy sadly fits in aptly with what has been happening in our Marelda Boshielo country as the global COVID-19 pandemic makes itself felt across the length and Marketing Officer: Valerie Setshedi breadth of our economy and day-to-day lives. PICASSO EDITORIAL & PRODUCTION TEAM TThe pandemic seems to have highlighted to corporate SA, the general middle-and Content Manager: Raina Julies, [email protected] upper-class populace, and unfortunately government, that our most vulnerable Contributors: Keith Bain, Tersia Booyzen, Dale Hes, communities continue to live in inhumane poverty. Never before has the fact that apartheid Levi Letsoko, Anél Lewis, Thapelo Maleke, Puseletso spatial planning, lack of basic infrastructure such as decent housing, roads, sanitation, water Mompei, Tiisetso Tlelima, Rodney Weideman Editorial Intern: Lufuno Maboho supply and electricity, high unemployment numbers and just unprecedented levels of Copy Editor: Brenda Bryden poverty been more evident than it is today. And this, ironically, thanks to a global pandemic Content Co-ordinator: Lwando Njamela that carries its own health challenges and devastations. Head of Design: Jayne Macé-Ferguson When the country went into lockdown at the end of March this year, many of us, Senior Designers: Mfundo Archie Ndzo, including state agencies and ministries were jolted into awareness around the massive Lesley-Ann van Schalkwyk gaps in living standards. Simple and often not-thought about activities while we were in Advert Designer: Bulelwa Sotashe Digital Editor: Stacey Visser lockdown, such as the ability to walk around or exercise on your own property, access Sales Project Manager: Jerome van der Merwe to technology and the means to use the internet or social media apps, visiting the grocery [email protected] store to stockpile toilet paper, canned food and snacks, drive your car with more than Sales Team: Anele Agbai, Jacqueline Bezuidenhout, one passenger, starkly highlighted the continuously widening gap that still exists between Natasha Hendricks, Billy Masemola, Yoliswa Stivin, the majority black rural and township communities and the privileged mainly white Frank Simons Production Editor: Shamiela Brenner suburban households. Advertising Co-ordinator: Merle Baatjes While it certainly has been jarring to realise that many live in this country without Subscriptions and Distribution: consciously understanding that this divide exists, it’s also heartening to have witnessed Shumiera Fredericks, [email protected], how corporate SA, privileged households and local government have partnered up to at Tel: +27 21 469 2400 least plug some of these holes. Business Manager: Lodewyk van der Walt In this issue of the Voice of Local Government, we take a look at how local municipalities [email protected] Management Accountant: Deidre Musha have navigated through the COVID-19 pandemic and what innovative and urgent General Manager, Magazines: Jocelyne Bayer interventions were put in place to allow communities to survive the myriad health and Published by Picasso Headline, a division of economic challenges they’ve faced (pages 6–13). We also talk to the response to unethical Arena Holdings leadership during this time (page 14), how technology (page 18) and data management (page 20) and contact tracing (page 16) initiatives are adaptable to a ‘new normal’ for the 13th Floor, 2 Long Street, Cape Town 8001 business of local government, and we talk to the impact this pandemic has had on our Tel: +27 21 469 2400 Fax: +27 86 6822 926 youth (page 22). www.businessmediamags.co.za SALGA has been hard at work communicating government’s plan of action, programmes, Printing: CTP Printers, Cape Town and initiatives during this period, in and amongst its regular work projects that aim to assist Follow and like SALGA on the following social media platforms. local communities with service delivery issues. Partnerships with both the Federation of Canadian municipalities (page 43) and the Japan International Cooperation Agency (page 33) are yielding great results for local municipalities. It’s certainly not ever going to be business as usual for government going forward, Copyright: Picasso Headline and SALGA. No portion of this magazine may be reproduced in any form without written so we look forward to the many initiatives, programmes and developments that local consent of the publisher. The publisher is not responsible for unsolicited material. Voice of Local Government is published communities will be a part of as we enter a new reality. quarterly by Picasso Headline. The opinions expressed are not necessarily those of SALGA or Picasso Headline. All advertisements/ advertorials and promotions have been paid for and therefore do Raina Julies not carry any endorsement by SALGA or the publisher. SALGA National Offi ce SALGA Eastern Cape SALGA Free State SALGA Gauteng SALGA KwaZulu-Natal SALGA Limpopo SALGA Mpumalanga SALGA North West SALGA Northern Cape SALGA Western Cape Menlyn Corporate Park Berea Terrace Offi ce SALGA House 3rd Floor Braampark 4th Floor Clifton Place 127 Marshall Street SALGA House 56 William Street Block Two, Montrio 7th Floor Block B Building 36 McGregor Street Forum 2, Hurst Grove Polokwane 11 Van Rensburg Street Witkoppies Corporate Park, 44 Strand Street 175 Corobay Avenue First Floor, Suite 3 East End 33 Hoofd Street Musgrave 0699 Nelspruit Klerksdorp 10 Oliver Road, Cape Town Cnr Garsfontein and Berea Bloemfontein Braamfontein Durban Tel: 015-291-1400 1200 2571 Monument Heights, 8000 Corobay East London 9300 2017 4001 Fax: 015-291-1414 Tel: 013-752-1200 Tel: 018-462-5290 Kimberley Tel: 021-446-9800 Waterkloof Glen, Ext 11 5214 Tel: 051-447-1960 Tel: 011-276-1150 Tel: 031-817-0000 Fax: 013-752-5595 Fax: 018-462-4662 8301 Fax: 021-418-2709 Pretoria Tel: 043-727-1150 Fax: 051-430-8250 Fax: 011-276-3636 Fax: 031-817-0034 Tel: 053-836-7900/8 0001 Fax: 043-727-1156/67 Fax: 053-833-3828 Tel: 012-369-8000 Fax: 012-369-8001 2 VOICE OF LOCAL GOVERNMENT ISSUE 32 SALGA32_Eds NoteFINAL.indd 2 2020/08/03 4:07 PM ToCheck_FP.indd 2 2020/07/07 1:20 PM Untitled-6 1 2020/07/07 9:48 AM CEO’S FOREWORD A MIXED BAG OF GOOD AND BAD NEWS UPFRONT SALGA CEO Xolile George highlights some of the challenges facing municipalities and the opportunities they present while sharing some of SALGA’s achievements lockdown regulations, being implicated in food parcel debacles, or just generally being found wanting in a time when they should be providing strong leadership.
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