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26 April 2017 SPEECH by the CITY's EXECUTIVE MAYOR 26 April 2017 SPEECH BY THE CITY’S EXECUTIVE MAYOR, PATRICIA DE LILLE, AT THE FULL COUNCIL MEETING ON 26 APRIL 2017 Good morning, goeie môre, molweni, as-salaamu alaikum, shalom. Mr Speaker, I would like to call for a moment of silence for Pan-Africanist Congress stalwart, Philip Kgosana, the fire victims, and the people who died on our roads over the Easter holiday period. Thank you. I would also like to use this opportunity to congratulate Cape Town City FC on their win against Kaizer Chiefs at the Cape Town Stadium last night in what was a gripping display of top quality football. Mr Speaker, last week an unsung hero in the struggle against apartheid, Philip Kgosana, died. As an unassuming, valiant fighter in the struggle, Kgosana dedicated his life to the political cause. He earned his name in our country’s history books when he led 30 000 African demonstrators on a march from Langa to the Cape Town CBD on 30 March 1960 following the Sharpeville massacre. In recognition of his contribution to our country, the City is currently processing a proposal to rename De Waal Drive after Philip Kgosana. This proposal will serve before the City’s Naming and Nomination Committee in May and will be followed by a public participation process. I was honoured to have known and stood alongside Kgosana during the darkest days of apartheid and drew from his determination as we fought together to realise freedom, justice, and equality for the people of our country. Mr Speaker, in the coming months, we will also see the unfolding of a plan to honour the father of our nation, former President Nelson Mandela. The public participation for proposed Madiba statue and exhibition at City Hall commenced earlier this month and comments, input and recommendations may be submitted until 21 May 2017. The proposed project – the installation of a statue of the late President Mandela and a permanent exhibition at the City Hall – forms part of the National Liberation Heritage Route, an initiative of the National Heritage Council and the National Department of Tourism. It is proposed that a statue be installed on the balcony at the City Hall where Madiba delivered his first public address following his release from the then Victor Verster Prison on 11 February 1990. The proposed project will be a joint effort between the City and the Western Cape Government’s Department of Tourism and Cultural Affairs and the Sport Department. SPEECH BY THE CITY’S EXECUTIVE MAYOR, PATRICIA DE LILLE, AT THE FULL COUNCIL MEETING ON 26 APRIL 2017 Mr Speaker, the hot weather over the past two weeks has sent our dam levels into further decline due to the high rate of evaporation and people using more water on the hotter days. I would like to thank the many residents and businesses who are making every effort to save water, but we have to do more to save more water consistently, regardless of weather patterns. The drought situation is not going to be alleviated any time soon as the impacts of climate change, with reduced annual average rainfall, are harshly being felt. As of this week our dams are at 23,3% storage levels, and with the last 10% of a dam’s water mostly not being useable, dam levels are effectively at 13,3%. We have now lowered the collective usage weekly target to 600 million litres per week as the dams decline even further. Stricter water restrictions could also be on the cards soon, subject to due process. For now, the City asks residents to stop using municipal water for all outside use and that those who are able to do so invest in greywater and rainwater harvesting, among others, for all non-potable uses. Similarly, the City is currently looking at ways to create a greater culture of water-harvesting in all of our operations. The City continues to accelerate its emergency water schemes in accordance with the disaster declaration. The exploratory phase of a pilot project for the extraction of water from the Table Mountain Group Aquifer (TMGA) is expected to begin near the end of June 2017. At this stage, the foreseen yield is approximately two million litres per day. This is because we are taking a precautionary approach to determine the sustainable yield of the TMGA and to prevent over-abstraction and environmental damage. The City is also continuing with extensive pressure-reduction programmes to reduce the flow of water and water losses through leakage in the pipework of the distribution system. The regulation of supply is under way in the central, southern and eastern suburbs and within the next week it will be expanded to the northern suburbs. In the coming weeks, the City will also be hosting a number of water and resilience-related events, including a briefing with the businesses in the city on 9 May. Mr Speaker, the drought has had an impact on all broad range of activities and in order to minimise the impact of the crisis on sport and sport development, the City and the South African Football Association (SAFA) are working together to tackle the soccer season under drought conditions. The City and SAFA will work together to manage the various playing fields and ensure that they are used in a manner that mitigates further damage as a result of the drought. Page 2 of 7 SPEECH BY THE CITY’S EXECUTIVE MAYOR, PATRICIA DE LILLE, AT THE FULL COUNCIL MEETING ON 26 APRIL 2017 SAFA has been very positive about finding a solution with the City and we thank them for their willingness to proactively tackle the impending crisis we are experiencing at our grass fields. Mr Speaker, on the point of sport facilities, on 31 March the North Gauteng High Court ruled in favour of the City against WBHO in stadium collusion case. In the case against a number of construction companies that colluded in respect of the construction of the Cape Town Stadium, the City is claiming more than R500 million in damages from the construction companies. The judgment relates to an objection by WBHO that the City could not rely on admissions made by other construction companies to prove its claim against WBHO. The court dismissed WBHO’s objection and ordered it to pay the City’s legal costs. This judgment paves the way for the City to recover the amount of damages that it has suffered as a result of the collusion by the construction companies. Recently, the National Government entered into settlement agreements with the various construction companies in respect of damages that arose from the collusion. This settlement agreement entered into does not come close to compensating the public for the damages that were suffered as a result of the collusion by the construction companies. This is exactly why the City of Cape Town decided to pursue the matter independently and refused to rely on national government for proper recourse. We are committed to continuing to pursue the claim, in order to recover the monies owed to the people of Cape Town. Mr Speaker, in line with our Organisational Development and Transformation Plan (ODTP), we are positioning Cape Town as a forward-thinking, globally competitive business destination. The findings of latest State of the Central City report affirm growth in investor confidence in Cape Town. Last week the latest State of the Central City Report by the Central City Improvement District (CCID) revealed that investor confidence has grown over the last five years, and Cape Town is the second biggest contributor to the National GDP. About R16,2 billion of investment has been pumped into Cape Town since 2012, and just under R4,4 billion in property investment was completed. While we are pleased with these findings, which reaffirm that our efforts in executing our Economic Growth Strategy are paying off, we will not rest on our laurels. We remain committed to building an opportunity city that is open for business so that we can continue to attract investment and alleviate poverty by providing much-needed jobs for the people of our city. As the Mayor of Chicago, Rahm Emanuel, said: ‘For cities to truly thrive, they need to think global and act global when it comes to growing the economy’. This is the approach that I took to the local economy early on in my first term as the Executive Mayor of Cape Town. Page 3 of 7 SPEECH BY THE CITY’S EXECUTIVE MAYOR, PATRICIA DE LILLE, AT THE FULL COUNCIL MEETING ON 26 APRIL 2017 It was the basis of the City’s 2012 Economic Growth Strategy, which has several key intervention areas at the core of the City’s investment attraction efforts. We have aggressively promoted Cape Town as a safe investment location, both nationally and internationally, underpinned by our clean governance record of receiving four clean audits consecutively. We are now the tech start-up capital of Africa as well as the continent’s green energy hub. Speaking of the clean audits, we have our clean audit awards for the City and the Cape Town International Convention Centre in the Chamber today. Last week, the City also won an award for the Most Innovative Stand at the World Travel Market Africa. Mr Speaker, while we are working hard on attracting major investment into the city, we are also stepping up our efforts to support the growth of small to medium local businesses. Small emerging businesses will be given a boost with the City’s initiative to give them a chance to gain the necessary experience and to grow their financial standing.
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