Mangaung Municipality: Integrated Development Plan
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2007 – 2008 Integrated Development Plan Improving Strategy, Ensuring Implementation Mangaung Local Municipality Foreword by Clr Getrude Mothupi, Executive Mayor Fellow citizens of MANGAUNG, once again I have the honour and privilege indeed to present our key service delivery tool and implementation plan thereof. You would recall that this time last year, the leadership of MLM presented our standing vision for the City as follows: By 2015 MANGAUNG Local Municipality is recognized nationally and internationally as a safe and attractive place to live, work and invest. There are good and accessible basic services for all and dynamic economy with a high employment rate, many innovative formal and informal business and a highly skilled workforce. MANGAUNG’s citizens have great civic pride, responsibility and strong partnership ethos, and there is a vibrant cultural life. Citizens participate actively and trust their service providers, operate with a culture of transparency and accountability. Poverty has reduced, everyone has access to land and housing, there is a much equitable distribution of wealth and health and disadvantaged groups are participating actively in society and the economy. MANGAUNG is attractive, safe, clean, green and healthy, and sought after by visitors and investors. Further, that in our state of the City address presented on April 12, 2007 we pronounced as follows with regard to the vision: Vision is an important beacon ensuring that we remain on course towards our destination. If misread it may lead to disastrous results. Our goal is to stay on course thus avoid getting lost in our journey towards 2015. Whilst appreciative of the fact that we have a comprehensive vision for MANGAUNG, we are concerned with the way it is coined or styled. “We therefore, submit that there is a need to re-organise it without changing its material contents. To this end, we desire a vision of not more than three lines – easily interpretable in peoples imagination – a clear mission statement and a set of value systems to take us there. If we do this change soon, we believe it will assist in shared and common approach by all concerned”. As we proceed with this important task, we remain committed to addressing this vision in four focus areas of our strategic thrust, that is: Economic growth and sustainable livelihoods; Building community resilience and self-reliance; Promoting service excellence; Promoting civic leadership with a shared common vision. This year, we once again went through an extensive review, consultative and participatory process on this IDP when preparing for the 2007/2008 budget and therefore the refinement thereto, are in the form of MAYCO setting the agenda forward as well as development priorities from communities from all 45 wards. Certainly, this IDP is truly an embodiment of your needs, dream and wishes for our City including the strategic projects we shall pursue to realise these needs within our budgetary constraints. These together, constitutes the roll-out action plan for the 2007/2008 financial year and beyond in achieving the developmental objectives of the municipality. Underpinning all our efforts is a need to vindicate the principles, that us is a people centered and people driven governance. As part of the process going forward, we will also this year, host a dialogue as well as a number of other summits thus affording all of us yet another opportunity to re-ascertain ourselves of the correctness of the direction we are traversing so we can correctly proclaim that we remain firmly on- route to effective and efficient service delivery. i I therefore take this opportunity to thank the many of you who contributed in whatever way to ensure that we are where we are today and hope that we can continue to rely on your support. In conclusion, I would like to say to you esteemed people of MANGAUNG, that we embark on these deeply momentous things (deliberate action plans) to also vindicate the principle of social equity through transformation. I THANK YOU!! ii Foreword by the Speaker The 2007/08 IDP is yet another milestone in taking our Municipality forward at both the planning and implementation processes. As our overall guiding policy document, the IDP primarily ensures that we are on course with regard to achieving our vision towards 2015. It is further an elaboration of our commitment as the political leadership of Mangaung Local Municipality towards fulfilling the mandate given to us by the people of our City. I am proud to declare that our IDP is a product of a dialogue with our citizens through community-based planning. This document will always serve as barometer of our performance as a Municipality. It is through its proper implementation that we together with the people of Mangaung can assess the performance of our administration. For this purpose, we need to enhance the role that communities play to ensure that the services that they receive and consume, meet their expectations, are affordable but most importantly bring about the desired impact in their livelihoods. We need as a Municipality to ensure that there is harmony amongst our people. They should continually display keen interest in governance affairs of the Municipality. Our people must feel that our doors are always open for them to raise issues with those that they have elected into office. We need to ensure that our communities live in an environment that is free from crime and violence; that they can see, feel and benefit from growth in the local economy and have proper shelter and ownership thereof. In conclusion, I wish to thank the people of Mangaung, our ward councillors, ward committees, Community Development Workers, our Facilitators during the development of ward plans and every one who have participated to ensure that we have our IDP. Lastly, my gratitude goes to the Executive Mayor, Councillor Dibeela Mothupi, for her leadership throughout the entire process of IDP review. _____________ Clr M Ralebese Foreword by the City Manager We pride ourselves as one of the Municipalities that forever strive to achieve our Constitutional mandate, which is nothing else but to render services to the community of Mangaung. Once again with this document we are subjecting ourselves to introspection, by evaluating our previous performance, assessing our current situation and pledging to perform our functions as an institution. In so doing, we are indeed mapping a way forward regarding how we can improve Service Delivery. I want to reassure all our citizens, politicians and staff that we are committing ourselves as the Management of Mangaung Municipality to ensuring the provision of quality services to our people. In this regard it must be emphasized that the municipality has always over the years been committed to providing service delivery, and even in years to come will strive for same. It is however very important under the current circumstances that councillors and officials should support and assist one another in ensuring the implementation of this IDP document, to the benefit of the municipality as a whole. The strength and functionality of the municipality depends on all us to make a contribution. I trust that by means of what this document seeks to achieve our collective input has laid a sound basis for the continued working relationship and understanding between the municipality, our stakeholders and the community in general, to take this institution to greater heights. ________________ Mr Thabo Manyoni iii TABLE OF CONTENTS PART A INTRODUCTION AND CURRENT SITUATION 1 Introduction 1 1.1 What is the Integrated Development Plan? 1 1.2 Policy and legislative context 1 1.3 The status of Mangaung Local Municipality’s Integrated Development Plan 1 1.4 The local context 2 1.5 Planning process 2 2 Situational Analysis 3 2.1 State of development in Mangaung 3 2.2 Overview of service issues 19 2.3 Overview of institutional issues 21 2.4 Financial issues 23 2.5 SWOT for Mangaung 23 PART B DEVELOPMENT STRATEGIES 25 3 Vision and Development Objectives 25 3.1 Our Vision and Development Objectives 25 3.2 Development objectives 25 3.3 Our strategy 26 3.4 Focus for 2007/08 28 3.5 Measuring strategic performance 28 3.6 Promoting sustainable development 30 4 Municipal Programmes and Projects 32 4.1 Introduction 32 4.2 Mangaung on the Move - promoting economic development 32 4.3 CBD renewal programme 35 iv 4.4 Community resilience 36 4.5 Mangaung Safe and Secure 37 4.6 Sustainable human settlement 38 4.7 Education 40 4.8 Services for All 41 4.9 AIDS Action 42 4.10 Clean Environment 44 4.11 Rural development 46 4.12 Public participation 47 5. Spatial Development Framework 49 5.1 Spatial background and purpose of the SDF 49 5.2 The Current Development Situation and Trends 49 5.3 Mangaung’s Approach to the Development Facilitation Act 52 5.4 Spatial Issues from the Current Reality and Concepts 54 5.5 Applying the spatial concepts to the IDP objectives 69 5.6 Spatial Structuring Elements 75 5.7 The macro and micro framework 77 PART C SERVICE PLANS 87 6 Municipal Service Delivery and Budget Implementation Plans 87 6.1 Where do SDBIPs fit in? 87 6.2 What is a service delivery and budget implementation plan 87 6.3 Economic Development and Planning 88 6.4 Community and social development 93 6.5 Infrastructure Services 99 6.6 Office of City Manager 101 6.7 Corporate services 105 6.8 Finance 109 v PART D GOVERNANCE AND MANAGEMENT 111 7 Institutional Plan for Mangaung Local Municipality 111 7.1 Introduction 111 7.2 Our institutional strategy – the benchmark