RURAL DEVELOPMENT PLAN 2020/2025 MANGUANG METRO MUNICIPALITY Executive Summary EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Mangaung Metro Rural Development Plan Page i Table of Contents 1. INTRODUCTION AND BACKGROUND ....................................................................................... 1 1.1 PREAMBLE .................................................................................................................................. 1 1.2 PURPOSE AND OBJECTVES OF THE RURAL DEVELOPMENT PLAN .......................................... 2 1.3 STUDY AREA OVERVIEW ............................................................................................................ 3 1.4 METHODOLOGY ........................................................................................................................ 4 2. CONTEXTUAL ANALYSIS............................................................................................................. 5 2.1 LEGISLATIVE FRAMEWORK ........................................................................................................ 5 2.1.1 Policy Alignment ....................................................................................................................... 5 2.1.2 Policy Drivers .............................................................................................................................. 5 2.2 TOWARDS A VISION AND OBJECTIVES .................................................................................... 8 2.2.1 Vision Formulation ..................................................................................................................... 8 2.2.2 Formulating Development Objectives.................................................................................... 8 3. SPATIAL ANALYSIS.................................................................................................................... 11 3.1 BROAD OVERVIEW OF THE STUDY AREA ................................................................................ 11 3.2 SOCIO-ECONOMIC PROFILE .................................................................................................. 14 3.3 ENGINEERING SERVICES AND NETWORK ANALYSIS .............................................................. 18 3.4 PHYSICAL ENVIRONMENT ........................................................................................................ 19 4. FUNCTIONAL REGIONS, STRATEGIES AND PROJECTS ............................................................ 22 4.1 RURAL DEVELOPMENT IS GUIDED BY A FRAMEWORK OF STRUCTURING ELEMENTS ........... 22 4.2 FUNCTIONAL REGIONS FORM THE BASIS FOR ADRESSING RURAL CHALLENGES ............... 26 4.3 STRATEGIES PROVIDE DIRECTION FOR PROJECT IMPLEMENTATION .................................... 32 4.3.1 Strategy Focus Area 1: Land Reform .................................................................................... 33 4.3.2 Strategy Focus Area 2: Agricultural Development and Transformation ............................ 33 4.3.3 Strategy Focus Area 3: Rural Economic Development ....................................................... 35 4.3.4 Strategy Focus Area 4: Supporting Settlement Areas ......................................................... 35 4.4 PROJECT IDENTIFICATION AND IMPLEMENTATION ............................................................... 37 5. CONCLUSION ........................................................................................................................... 38 List of Figures Figure 1.1: Methodology in compiling the Mangaung Metro RDP ................................................... 4 Figure 2.1: Development Agenda as provided by the MTSF .............................................................. 6 Figure 2.2: Mangaung IDP Development Agenda ............................................................................... 7 Figure 2.3: Cluster areas for the community participation areas ...................................................... 8 Figure 3.1: Spatial Mapping Process and Contribution ..................................................................... 11 Executive Summary Mangaung Metro Rural Development Plan Page i Figure 3.2: Socio-Economic Profile.......................................................................................................... 15 Figure 3. 3: MMM Demographic Profile 1 .............................................................................................. 16 Figure 3.4: MMM Demographic Profile 2 ............................................................................................... 16 Figure 3.5: MMM Services Backlog ......................................................................................................... 18 Figure 4.1: Process for Strategy Formulation ......................................................................................... 32 Figure 4.2: Strategy Focus Area 1 ........................................................................................................... 33 Figure 4.3: Strategy Focus Area 2 ........................................................................................................... 34 Figure 4.4: Strategy Focus Area 3 ........................................................................................................... 35 Figure 4.5: Strategy Focus Area 4 ........................................................................................................... 36 List of Tables Table 2.1: Legislative Framework .............................................................................................................. 5 Table 2.2: Seven Presidential Priorities from the SONA 2019 ............................................................... 7 Table 2.3: Common themes and key elements .................................................................................... 9 Table 2.4: Development Priorities and Objectives ................................................................................ 9 Table 3.1: Number and size of land units in MMM............................................................................... 12 Table 3.2: Transport/Movement corridors in MMM ............................................................................. 12 Table 4.1: Structuring Elements ................................................................................................................ 22 Table 4.2: Functional Region 1 ................................................................................................................ 27 Table 4.3: Functional Region 2 ................................................................................................................ 28 Table 4.4: Functional Region 3 ................................................................................................................ 29 Table 4.5: Functional Region 4 ................................................................................................................ 30 Table 4.6: Functional Region 5 ................................................................................................................ 31 List of Maps Map 1.1: Mangaung Location .................................................................................................................. 3 Map 3.1: Mangaung Urban Centres and Movement Corridors ...................................................... 13 Map 3.2: Thaba Nchu Tribal Areas ......................................................................................................... 14 Map 3.3: Poverty Pockets throughout MMM........................................................................................ 17 Map 3.4: Rivers, Dams and major environmentally protected areas ............................................. 19 Map 3.5: Fruit and Vegetables ................................................................................................................ 21 Map 3.6: Cereal .......................................................................................................................................... 21 Map 3.7: Fats and Oils ............................................................................................................................... 21 Map 3.8: Protein .......................................................................................................................................... 21 Map 3.9: Game .......................................................................................................................................... 21 Map 3.10: Poultry ........................................................................................................................................ 21 Map 4.1: Composite Map of Rural Development in MMM............................................................... 25 Map 4.2: Delineation of Mangaung Functional Regions .................................................................. 26 Map 4.3: Functional Region 1: Mining Region ..................................................................................... 27 Map 4.4: Functional Region 2: Intensive Agriculture Region ............................................................ 28 Map 4.5: Functional Region 3: Catalytic Intervention Region ......................................................... 29 Map 4.6: Functional Region 4: Priority Land Reform Region ............................................................. 30 Map 4.7: Functional Region 5: Tourism Region ...................................................................................