Integrated Development Plan Gamagara Local …

1 I | P a g e : D R A F T I D P 2 0 1 7-2022 Year: 2017-2022 Integrated Development plan Gamagara Local municipality ii | P a g e : D R A F T I D P 2 0 1 7-2022 Table of Contents Foreword by the Mayor .. v Foreword by the Municipal Manager .. v ii Executive summary .. ix Acronyms ..xii Chapter 1 1. Legislativ e I ntroduction .. 1 Legislativ e Constitution of Republic Of South Africa (1996) .. 1 White Paper on Local Government (1998) .. 2 Municipal Systems Act .. 2 National Dev elopment National Provincial Spatial Development Gamagara Spatial Development Process Followed .. 4 IDP Process Public Table of Public Community Needs Powers and function of the municipality .. 11 Chapter 2: Situational Analysis .. 11 2. I ntroduction .. 11 Geographical Location.

2 11 Spatial rational .. 13 Spatial Env 15 Climate .. 15 Topography and 17 Water sources .. 17 Biodiversity .. 17 iii | P a g e : D R A F T I D P 2 0 1 7-2022 Heritage and assets .. 18 Env ironmental threats .. 19 Demographic profile of the municipality .. 19 Population Distribution .. 20 Age Distribution .. 20 Basic 21 Housing .. 22 Municipal institutional Development and transformation .. 24 Municipal management and operational 24 Political composition .. 24 Administration .. 24 Complaints management systems .. 30 Fraud prevention plan .. 30 Stakeholders mobilisation .. 30 Institutional Development and transformation .. 30 Human Capital .. 30 Skills Development .. 31 Performance Management System .. 32 Information technology .. 32 Human resources 32 Local economic Development .

3 34 Socio-economic indicators .. 34 Official employment status .. 34 Education 35 Income levels .. 36 Economic indicators .. 37 Sectors .. 38 Tourism and SMMEs .. 38 Job creation initiatives .. 39 LED Friendly .. 39 Financial Municipal financial viability .. 39 iv | P a g e : D R A F T I D P 2 0 1 7-2022 Auditor General s finding .. 40 Financial management system .. 40 Operating Revenue Framework .. 41 Operating Expenditure Framework .. 41 Capital 44 Good governance and public participation .. 44 Democratic governance .. 44 Communication .. 44 Governance structure .. 44 Chapter 45 Political Environment .. 45 Economic 47 Local Social Technology and 4. Risk 5. Swot 6. 7. 8. 9. Strategic 10. Strategic Implementation 11.

4 Back to Chapter 77 Integration - Sector 77 Chapter 80 Projects 80 Issue 1: Basic Infrastructure Issue 2: Water and Issue 3: Roads and I ssue 4: Housing and Landuse Issue 6: Local Economic v | P a g e : D R A F T I D P 2 0 1 7-2022 Issue 7: Youth Development and Special I ssue 8: Env ironmental Management and SDBI P(To be completed) vi | P a g e : D R A F T I D P 2 0 1 7-2022 FOREWORD BY THE MAYOR: MAYOR OF Gamagara Local municipality COUNCILLOR: DINEO MOYO The prev ious cycle of the I DP ended on an unprecedented tone of economic depression. 2015/16 w as a turbulent year for Gamagara Local municipality as it was for the first time that the municipality had to adjust its budget 48% dow nward. The prolonged v aluation dispute took its toll on our dev elopment, w hich ended w ith a loss of the case to Kumba resulted in our budget be cut by almost R350 million.

5 It was a v ery challenging term again in that it w as an election brought more div ersity into the municipal leadership. The municipality experience a loss w hen Councillor J. Johnson passed on and Councillor Johannes Kaars resigned from Council. This meant introduction of new Councillors w hen the financial year w as on the brink of ending. These, how ever, made us strong as team and it strengthened the spirit of community dev elopment and improv ed service delivery. This is ev idenced by the municipal response to the unexpected rapid grow th by starting and completing the follow ing projects planning for the upgrade of bulk electricity in Kathu, Olifantshoek and Dibeng, phase 2 and 3 of the sew erage network in Dibeng, two parks w ere upgraded, completion of the 70 RDP houses in Mapoteng amongst others.

6 The Dingleton Resettlement process progressed w ell and only few households were not relocated to the new area called Siyathemba in Kathu. Some of the few households refused to be relocated as they w ant their dispute w ith Kumba to be resolved before they can mov e out of Dingleton. The process encouraged the municipality to transfer the exchange houses that belonged to the municipality to the people w ho hav e rented these houses for extended period of time. The project is at the point of issuing people w ith title deeds. This demonstrated commitment of the municipality to promoting and implementing better life for all. vii | P a g e : D R A F T I D P 2 0 1 7-2022 We managed to deliv er the basic serv ices to the people as required and also implemented most of the infrastructure projects through the assistance of our social partners as w ell as the mines.

7 On behalf of the Council I also w ish to applaud all w ard committee members for the commitment they ve shown and outstanding performance throughout despite the challenges in the community. I n conclusion w e w ant to also appreciate the w ork done by the Gamagara administration, led by the Municipal Manager. We urge you to continue w orking tirelessly to make Gamagara a better place for all its residents and potential investors. There is a lot that still need to be done, the w ar on pov erty, unemployment, inequality, and underdev elopment is still far, and it has begun in earnest. We dare not giv e up until the finish line. KEY POLICY DEVELOPMENTS FOR THE CURRENT IDP CYCLE: I n v iew of the challenges preceding cycle, a turnaround approach to dev elopment is required. I t is required of the municipality to take adv antage of the national dev elopment trajectory and lev erage on national gov ernment economic dev elopment agenda.

8 The municipality should embark on industrialisation of the municipality through gov ernment programmes like Mining Tow ns Regeneration, Small Tow n Regeneration, Strategic I ndustrial Plans, I ndustrial Policy Action plan , Manufacturing Dev elopment Act, I ndustrial Dev elopment Zone and the National I ndustrial Policy Framework. The municipality should express itself explicitly on how it is going to lev erage on these programmes in order to leav e the mine dependency shackles. I n its endeav our to dev elop, our Development systems should not leav e behind skills Development , Local SMME dev elopment and promotion of Local economies. Our inv olvement in the education sector has been of just a supporting role ev en though the EFT College has being producing qualifications that w ere not supporting the economic Development in the municipality , this I DP cycle should see serious interventions through discussions w ith v arious stakeholders so to ensure synergy between the education sector and the markets.

9 Spatial settings in our municipality is displeasing as it is still perpetuating the apartheid set-up, prev iously disadv antaged areas are planned as RDP areas w here amenities are not aligned to facilitate integration. Moving forward spatial impressions should integrate our communities and create equal access to economic activ ities. Our LED should mov e aw ay from project based initiativ es rather create conducive env ironment for economy to strive. LED should filter in all the dev elopment projects of the municipality and Supply Chain Management should be a key stakeholder to economic transformation. viii | P a g e : D R A F T I D P 2 0 1 7-2022 Back to basics formed cornerstone of our serv ice deliv ery. This meant Batho Pele became the fundamental principle to service deliv ery.

10 Customer Care and improv ement on turn- around time to customer queries and improv ed maintenance planning. These included prov ision of basic service, water, w aste water management, sanitation, establishment of customer care serv ice, replacement of broken streetlights, management of solid w aste, etc. On the other front the municipality tried to improv e provision of serv ices and had to focus on maintenance of the existing infrastructure. This w ill assist to increase interest of inv estors as the establishment of the Kathu I ndustrial Park and the dev elopment of the 1600 mixed human settlement dev elopment w hich included 300 houses for Transnet w as kick-started. The grow th of the tow n necessitates partnerships to ensure w e deliver on our mandate and thus a shift to engaging priv ate partners is needed.