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Draft 23 Programme 23 DRAFT PROGRAMME 23 PRESIDENTIAL LOCAL GOVERNMENT SUMMIT 2017 Day 1: Thursday, 6 April 2017 (09:00 – 17:00) Day 2: Friday, 7 April 2017 (09:00 – 13:00) Hall 2: Gallagher Convention Centre, Midrand Theme: Transforming Municipal Spaces for Radical Social and Economic Development: Objectives: 1. To continue supporting the Back-to-Basics programme in our municipalities as a building block for what the NDP defines as developmental local governance. 2. To agree on ways to further strengthen the system of local government in the second phase of the B2B programme, in the following three areas: • Addressing spatial injustice and spatial dislocation which continue to impact on the lives of our people; • How best to build resilient communities to avoid and reduce the impact of disasters; and • How social and economic transformation can best be achieved at local level. 3. Forging whole-of government agreements on approaches and concrete actions to advance radical social and economic transformation at a local level, over the current five-year term. ACCREDITATION AND REGISTRATION ON WEDNESDAY, 5 APRIL 2017 10:00 – 18:00 AT VENUE DAY 1: THURSDAY, 6 APRIL 2017: MAIN VENUE: # HALL 2 08:00 – 17:00 Time Activity Speaker 08:00 – 09:30 Registration and arrival of invited guests All invited guests 09:30 All guests to be seated; playing of National Mr Andries Nel, Programme Anthem Director: Deputy Minister, Cooperative Governance 09:30 – 09.45: Welcome and Opening RemarKs Mr David Makhura, Premier, Gauteng Province 09.45 – 10.15 Address by the President of the Republic of His Excellency Mr JG Zuma South Africa 1 10:15 – 10:45 Address to Delegates: The Centrality of Mr Jeff Radebe, Integrated Planning in a Developmental State, Minister in the Presidency as Articulated through the National Development Plan (NDP) 10:45 – 11:15 Address to Delegates: Building on Back to Basics: Mr Des van Rooyen, Towards Developmental Local Government Minister of COGTA 11:15 – 11:30 Messages of Support NHTL, SALGA, IMATU, SAMWU, SOCIAL PARTNERS, NEDLAC 11:30 – 12:00 Introduction to the Three Panel Sessions Mr Andries Nel, Programme Director: Deputy Minister, Cooperative Governance. LUNCH 12:00 – 13:30 INTERACTIVE PANEL DISCUSSIONS 13.30 – 17:00 (see end of programme) DAY 2: FRIDAY, 7 APRIL 2017 09:30 – 13:00: MAIN VENUE: # HALL 2 REPORT BACK FROM PANELS AND SUMMIT DECLARATION Time Activity Speaker 09:30-10:00 Plenary: Opening: Welcome and Recap of Day 1 Mr Obed Bapela, Programme Director, Deputy Minister of Traditional Affairs. 10:00 – 11:00 Plenary: Consolidated Presentation from the WorK of Dr Charles Nwaila: Director-General: the Three Panels DTA, and Acting for the Department of Cooperative Governance (DCOG). 11:30 – 12:30 Reading of the Presidential Summit Declaration Cllr Zandile Gumede, Deputy President SALGA, and Mayor of eThekwini 12:30 – 13:00 Closure Mr Cyril Ramaphosa, Deputy President of the Republic, LUNCH AND DEPARTURE 13:00-14:00 2 INTERACTIVE PANEL DISCUSSIONS DAY 1: 06 APRIL 14:00 – 17:00 Panel 1: Main Plenary, # Hall 2 Panel 2: # Hall 1 Panel 3: # Hall 1 Introduction to Panel Sessions The Third Presidential Summit on Local Government focuses on the ongoing strengthening of local government through the deepening of the B2B approach, and through developing strategies and tactics to advance the objectives of developmental local government and spatial transformation, as articulated in the NDP. The Interactive Panel sessions will, collectively, provide an opportunity to: 1. Review the application of the 5 pillars of B2B as the foundation for developmental local government. 2. Identify and discuss those levers which can drive development: e.g.: strong foundations for B2B, plus: access to land, services and resources in a given space; local enablers for economic development investments and improved financial sustainability; managing urbanization and rural development programs; building resilient municipalities to manage disaster risKs; and mutual cooperation across intergovernmental and other staKeholders. 3. Debate the role of integrated planning in transforming the economy of space: how to better profile a municipality’s socio-economic status and opportunities, its typology, and the role of collaborative action in bringing together sectors and spheres to converge their plans in a municipal space. 3 Panel 1: Main Plenary, Hall 2 Moderator: SALGA President, Cllr Parks Tau: Intergovernmental and stakeholder roles and Panelists responsibilities towards radical social and economic transformation at local level 1. Minister of Small Business Development: Ms Lindiwe Zulu Descriptor: 2. Gauteng MEC for Economic Development, This panel’s overall focus will be on identifying ways in which Environment, Agriculture and Rural intergovernmental and other staKeholders cooperate and Development: Mr Lebogang Maile. collaborate using existing and envisaged programmes to become instruments for radical social and economic 3. The Mayor of iLembe District Municipality: Cllr transformation and building a more inclusive local economy. S.S Gumede The panel will also deliberate on how this envisaged socio- 4. Business Representative: economic transformation is to contribute towards the Mr Andile Sangqu; Executive Head, Anglo- financial sustainability of municipalities. This will provide American South Africa. municipalities with the required resources for the effective implementation the BacK to Basics, as well as the 5. Social Transformation Representative: Ms developmental imperatives. Ashanti Ngidi, AfriKology Institute. The following guiding questions will be deliberated: 1. How the programmes of your department / organisation can contribute to radical social and economic transformation at the local level? 2. How do we as partners (municipalities, provincial government departments, national government departments, state-owned entities, businesses, etc.) collectively implement a programme to achieve the intended radical social and economic outcomes? 3. How do we collectively contribute towards the financial health of municipalities in order to create a sustainable resource base to support their functionality through BacK to Basics? Panel 2: # Hall 1 Moderator: Mr Lechesa Tsenoli: Deputy Strengthening intergovernmental and multi-stakeholder Speaker of Parliament collaboration to build resilient communities to adapt to climate change, avoid and reduce the impact of disasters Panelists Descriptor 1. Ms Edna Molewa, Minister for Environmental Affairs The increased frequency and severity of disasters which often results in human and economic loss calls for effective 2. Ms Nomusa Dube-Ncube, MEC for COGTA, and efficient strategies to avoid and or reduce the impact KwaZulu Natal Province thereof. 3. Ms Antonette Steyn, Mayor of Breede With climate change, environmental degradation and rising Valley Local Municipality, Western Cape inequality, successfully managing disaster risKs in these 4 areas will be a determining factor to push for the Province achievement of radical transformation and economic development as well as sustainable development. 4. Ms Mmapula Kgari, Interim CEO, South African Weather Services. This panel’s overall focus will be on identifying ways in which intergovernmental and other staKeholders can cooperate 5. Mr. Derrick Naido, CEO: South African Red and collaborate to ensure resilient municipalities thorough Cross Society focused Disaster RisK Reduction strategies. The panel will deliberate on the climate change and its impact on sustainable development. The following guiding questions will be deliberated: 1. What should be done to promote multi-sectoral and multi-stakeholder approach to create resilient municipalities? 2. What should be done to promote mainstreaming of climate change adaptation and disaster risK reduction? 3. What is the importance of using Early Warning System to prepare for, avoid or reduce the impact of impending disasters? 4. How best can we collaborate with NGOs to promote public awareness and advocacy, to ensure that communities live in safe environments or adapt to the identified risKs? Panel 3: # Hall 1 Moderator: Ms Lindiwe Sisulu, Minister Integrated Transforming the economy of space: intergovernmental Human Settlements commitments towards radical socio-economic transformation Panelists: Descriptor: 1. Mr Gugile Nkwinti Minister, Rural Development and Land Reform AcKnowledging that it may taKe decades, the National Development Plan has called for a fundamental reshaping of 2. Ms Makoma Makhurupetje, MEC, COGHSTA, our colonial and apartheid geography. It states that by 2030, Limpopo Province the state should have made meaningful progress in reviving rural areas, and in creating more functionally integrated, 3. Ms Patricia De Lille, Executive Mayor, City of balanced and vibrant urban settlements. Cape Town In so doing, South Africa can begin to reverse the legacies of 4. Nkosi Sipho Mahlangu, Deputy Chairperson, the spatial injustices of the past, as well as halting the National House of Traditional leaders (NHTL) perpetuation of urban sprawl and poorly integrated development. 5. Ms Sue Bannister, Commissioner, National Planning Commission (NPC 5 This panel will, therefore, be focusing on how the state can worK as an intergovernmental collective, to revise our current approaches to integrated, spatially informed, planning, which ultimately converges in a municipal space. This is a critical lever for fundamentally re-shaping our spatial landscape. The following guiding questions will be deliberated: 1. 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