UMKHANYAKUDE DISTRICT MUNICIPALITY ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT FRAMEWORK Socio-Economic Assessment DRAFT May 2012 P.O. BOX 1673 23 Jan Hofmeyer Road Tel: 031 266 3884 SUNNINGHILL Westville Fax: 031 266 5287 2157 3629 Email: [email protected] 1 TABLE OF CONTENTS 1 Legal Framework ........................................................................................................... 5 1.1 Constitution of the Republic of South Africa (Act 108 of 1996) ................................ 5 1.1.1 Traditional leadership ....................................................................................... 6 1.2 National Environmental Management (Act 107 of 1998) ......................................... 6 1.3 Promotion of Administrative Justice Act (Act 3 of 2000) .......................................... 7 1.4 Development Facilitation Act (Act 67 of 1995) ......................................................... 8 1.5 KwaZulu-Natal Traditional Leadership and Governance Act (Act 5 of 2005) ........... 9 1.6 Ingonyama Trust Act (Act 3 of 1994) ..................................................................... 10 1.7 KwaZulu-Natal Planning and Development Act 6 of 2008 ..................................... 10 1.8 Restitution of Land Rights Act 22 Of 1994 ............................................................ 11 1.9 Promotion of Access to Information Act 2 of 2000 ................................................. 11 1.10 KwaZulu-Natal Public Transport Act 3 of 2005 ...................................................... 11 2 Policies, Strategies, Plans and Programmes ................................................................ 12 2.1 The New Growth Path ........................................................................................... 12 2.2 Provincial Growth and Development Strategy 2011 .............................................. 12 2.3 Provincial Spatial Economic Development Strategy 2007 ..................................... 12 2.4 District Comparative Advantages Report, 2012 ..................................................... 13 2.5 District Economic Drivers: uThukela District Municipality, 2012............................. 13 2.6 Free Basic Water Policy ........................................................................................ 13 3 Analysis of Land Use ................................................................................................... 14 3.1 Land Claims .......................................................................................................... 14 3.2 Land Cover and Land Tenure ............................................................................... 15 3.3 Traditional Leadership .......................................................................................... 16 4 Socio-Economic Profile ................................................................................................ 17 4.1 Population and Household Size ............................................................................ 17 4.2 Age and gender .................................................................................................... 18 4.3 Dwelling ................................................................................................................ 18 4.4 Monthly personal income ...................................................................................... 19 4.5 Poverty and vulnerability ....................................................................................... 20 4.6 Education .............................................................................................................. 22 4.7 Crime and Security ............................................................................................... 24 4.8 Health ................................................................................................................... 25 4.9 Access to services: Water ..................................................................................... 25 4.10 Access to services: Sanitation .............................................................................. 26 2 4.11 Access to services: Energy ................................................................................... 26 4.12 Safety and Security ............................................................................................... 27 5 Overview of the District Economy ................................................................................ 29 5.1 GVA and economic indicators ............................................................................... 29 5.1.1 Development Nodes and Corridors ................................................................ 31 5.2 Spatial Economic Drivers and Comparative Advantage ........................................ 32 5.2.1 Location Advantages ..................................................................................... 33 5.2.2 Geographical Advantages .............................................................................. 33 5.2.3 Infrastructural Advantages ............................................................................. 33 5.2.4 Heritage Advantages ..................................................................................... 33 5.2.5 Sector Advantages ........................................................................................ 34 5.2.6 Linkages between Sectors ............................................................................. 34 5.3 Government Contribution to the Economy ............................................................ 35 5.3.1 Govt Spending and Fixed Investment ............................................................ 35 5.3.2 Institutional Structures ................................................................................... 35 5.3.3 Maladministration Indicators .......................................................................... 36 6 SWOT Analysis ............................................................................................................ 36 6.1 Strengths .............................................................................................................. 36 6.2 Opportunities ........................................................................................................ 36 6.3 Weaknesses ......................................................................................................... 37 6.4 Threats ................................................................................................................. 37 7 Management Priorities ................................................................................................. 37 8 Bibliography ................................................................................................................. 39 List of Tables Table 1: List of Traditional Authorities in uThukela DM ........................................................................ 16 Table 2: Population in Uthukela DM by number and percentage (Statistics South Africa, 2011) ........ 17 Table 3: Age and Gender (Statistics South Africa, 2007) ..................................................................... 18 Table 4: Percentage Distribution of households by Type of dwelling (Statistics South Africa, 2007) .. 19 Table 5: Annual personal Income (Statistics South Africa, 2007)......................................................... 20 Table 6: Percentage of People Living in Poverty in KwaZulu-Natal and uThukela DM in 2001, 2005 and 2012 (Global Insight, 2011) taken from uThukela IDP 2012 (Department Strategic Planning and Economic Development, 2012) ............................................................................................................. 20 Table 7: Vulnerability Classification (Department of Cooperative Government and Traditional Affairs, 2011) ..................................................................................................................................................... 21 Table 8: Number of persons receiving social grants in uThukela DM (Statistics South Africa, 2007) .. 22 Table 9: Schools in uThukela as provided by KZN DOE ...................................................................... 23 Table 10: Level of Education Obtained reached (Statistics South Africa, 2011) .................................. 23 Table 11: Crime Statistics per 10 000 persons for uThukela Police Precincts and KwaZulu-Natal for the period 2011-2012 (Institute for Security Studies, 2011) ................................................................. 24 3 Table 12: Health Care Facilities in uThukela DM (Department Strategic Planning and Economic Development, 2012) .............................................................................................................................. 25 Table 13 Percentage distribution of households by type of Water Source (Statistics South Africa, 2011) ..................................................................................................................................................... 26 Table 14: Percentage distribution of households by type of Toilet Facilities (Statistics South Africa, 2011) ..................................................................................................................................................... 26 Table 15: District usage of energy/fuel (Statistics South Africa, 2011) ................................................. 27 Table 16: Crime Statistics per 10 000 persons for uThukela Police Precincts and KwaZulu-Natal for