Tshwane’s 2018/19 Integrated Development Plan Review
The Municipal Systems Act compels the MEC responsible for Local Government to evaluate the municipal IDPs on an annual basis, and provide comments thereon to enhance intergovernmental relations and alignment in order to improve service delivery.
MEC Co-operative Governance, Traditional affairs and Human Settlements, Mr Dikgang Uhuru Moiloa, commended the City on the reviewed IDP, and also raised certain matters that require the City’s attention. The comments and the City’s responses are captured in the table below.
Table 4.1: Response to MEC comments
Issue Raised by the MEC City of Tshwane’s Response/ Action SECTION 1: CROSS CUTTING OBSERVATIONS
A notable trend has been observed across all municipalities with regards to the decline in the use of time-series data from the 2016/17 -2017/8 municipal financial years. It is important that Municipalities use time series data as it assists in tracking the performance of specific indicators.
Where there is no time series data, it is impossible to monitor and track how municipalities are performing in specific key areas. Time-series data is important to use it in the Integrated Development Plan as it provides a deeper insight into why certain phenomena might be taking place in the Municipalities, such as community protests, because the rise or decline of specific issues can be easily tracked. Time-series data further allows communities to hold Municipalities and political leaders accountable on the developmental trajectory of their communities. Municipalities are therefore urged to make use of time –series data in the IDP, and use at least two data points in doing so.
The City takes note of the need to use time series data to monitor and track how we perform in key areas. We will work together with Stats SA to see how we can use this tool in our development of future Integrated development plans. Other sources of information utilised by government departments should be made easily available and accessible for the municipalities to allow extraction and utilisation of the relevant data.
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Issue Raised by the MEC City of Tshwane’s Response/ Action Related to the above there is a need for
Municipalities to improve their bench-marking efforts. Many of the indicators, including in key areas such as education, have not being bench marked which makes it challenging to conduct a comparative analysis across our municipalities.
While time-series allows tracking indicator performance, bench marking allows for comparing municipalities amongst themselves as well as how they fare with provincial and national averages so that a comprehensive development picture can be painted. Benchmarking further makes it easier to note where things are going well and not, and to intervene appropriately before the situation deteriorates – while also allowing for replication of best practices within the province.
The City takes note of the need to use time series data to monitor and track how we perform in key areas. We will work together with Stats SA to see how we can use this tool in our development of future integrated development plans.
It is further noted that there is limited use of migration statistics in all IDPs. There is evidence of data to measure the magnitude of migration inflows into the province but not at the municipal level. This type of analysis is crucial to give a sense of preparedness of our municipalities to begin to develop strategies and mitigation measures to address migration into their respective spaces. The use of such data is important to aid the municipality in planning and managing its resources effectively – including the demand for services and the infrastructure required to meet the demand. Thus, it is important that municipalities improve the usage of their migration statistics because it is not possible to manage something until it has been measured.
The IDP relies on data released from Stats SA to identify trends on migration statistics. The last information received was based on 2011 census.
This means that we are dealing with outdated information, and therefore we will not be able to plan adequately for migration. It is therefore important that regular counting is done by Stats SA and the results be made available at ward level for use by municipalities.
SECTION 2: SPATIAL DEVELOPMENT FRAMEWORK A full Spatial Development Framework (SDF) has
not been submitted as part of the IDP submission, only a summary of the SDF. The complete Built Environment Performance Plan is however attached which provided sufficient information on Spatial Planning.
The IDP itself indicates that the SDF was adopted by Council in June 2012. The Tshwane Metropolitan Municipality is urged to therefore prioritise the finalisation of SPLUMA compliant SDF. Since 2012 the spatial planning legislative and policy context has changed. New Spatial Planning legislation and policy context have emerged and are required to be taken into account when the City’s SDF is reviewed.
The New Urban agenda; Spatial Planning and Land Use Management Act (2013); Integrated Urban Development Framework and its implementation plan (2016); SPLUMA guidelines on Spatial Development Frameworks (SDF guidelines, 2014)
The City of Tshwane’s Metropolitan Spatial Development Framework was approved in 2012.
The City has commenced with the process to review the framework. In terms of the project plan we are planning to complete the report in May 2020 and it should be approved at Council by end of financial year. The reviewed Metropolitan Spatial Development Framework will take into conisation the SPLUMA guidelines on Spatial Development Frameworks (SDF guidelines, 2014).
The City has however developed 7 Regional Spatial Development Frameworks that were approved by Council in 2018. These frameworks have been developed in line with SPLUMA guidelines.
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Issue Raised by the MEC City of Tshwane’s Response/ Action must be taken into consideration when preparing
the SDF Review.
The IDP has a Capital Investment Framework that illustrates how it will assist in realising the Spatial vision for Tshwane Metro. However there is no spatial representation of each project within the Municipal space. A spatial representation of projects within the City of Tshwane overlaid onto the priority nodes and corridors identified is required and the Municipality is urged to pay close attention to that.
The City is reviewing its Built Environment Performance Plan. This will be submitted to Gauteng province as an Annexure to the IDP. The BEPP includes the Capital Investment Framework and it will have a detailed discussing on how projects are prioritised in terms of the Capital Planning System. It will also have a high level illustration of where the projects are going to be implemented over the MTREF period.
LOCAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT The City’s plan for the term is to create a city of
opportunity. The plan centres around five focus areas (attracting investment and encouraging growth by making it easy to do business in Tshwane, Revitalising the economy and supporting Tshwane’s entrepreneurs. Empowering individuals to take advantage of opportunities, infrastructure led growth to catalyse and revitalise existing nodal economies and encouraging tourism and recreation) which we believe will create economic growth, which in turn will be labour –absorbing, provide many more residents with new employment opportunities and develop the City further. This will make it easier to do business, support entrepreneurship, empower individuals, invest in infrastructure and encourage new industries, which will lead to economic growth and employment.
The City of Tshwane has a Strategic pillar to facilitate Economic growth and job creation. The pillar is discussed in detail in the chapter dealing with strategic intent. The pillar focuses on;
i) Attracting investment and encouraging growth by making it easier to make do business in Tshwane
ii) Revitalising and supporting Tshwane’s entrepreneurs in all seven regions
iii) Empowering individuals and co-operatives to take advantage of business opportunities created in the City
iv) Infrastructure led growth to catalyse and revitalise existing nodal economies
v) Encouraging tourism and recreation
The City has programmes that support economic development. The Tshwane Economic Development Agency is a Municipal Entity that has been established to focus on attracting investment in the City. The City hosts investors annually to its Development Forum to engage investors and to present opportunities in the City.
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Issue Raised by the MEC City of Tshwane’s Response/ Action
The Municipality is commended for developing positive relationships with key training institutions to provide entrepreneurial training to informal traders as well as sustaining access to Tshwane Wi-Fi (free Wi-Fi) as part of the economic infrastructure support and clustered enterprise development.
Furthermore, promoting entrepreneurship development is important as stated in the National Development Plan and TER agenda. The City of Tshwane is doing the following to promote entrepreneurship development: review informal trading by-laws to cover all seven regions in the City through organised leadership. It is envisaged that such informal trading by-law review processes will acknowledge input from key stakeholders including the informal traders themselves.
The City is however advised against narrowing entrepreneurship to informal trading, especially in the context of providing Wi-Fi. It is a positive thing as the City is acknowledging the existence and importance of informal trading in an African City such as Tshwane. These efforts should however not reduce entrepreneurship in its entirety to informal street trading – who do not always require infrastructure such as Wi-Fi to conduct their business.
Strategic pillar 2: A city that cares for its residents and promotes inclusivity deals with the following action plans;
i) Upgrading of informal settlement challenges through addressing provision of services in these areas to improve the quality of life ii) Supporting vulnerable residents by providing a
basket of free basic services to the indigents iii) Building integrated communities by
proving programmes such as supporting early childhood centres and developing social amenities
iv) Promoting safe, reliable and affordable transportation and improving access to public health care services.
The City has prioritised Intergovernmental relations through working together with National and Provincial Government Departments to ensure alignment of policies, strategies and plans.
This enables the City to access various grants to ensure improved service delivery to the communities we serve.
There are many programmes that are funded through the operational budget and the City will continue to provide the required financial, human and infrastructure resources to make service delivery a reality.
We need to ensure that all strategic programmes of the City are well resourced.
SERVICE DELIVERY AND INFRASTRUCTURE
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Issue Raised by the MEC City of Tshwane’s Response/ Action The City of Tshwane has committed to being a City
that cares for residents and promotes inclusivity;
facilitates economic growth and job creation; keeps residents safe; is open, honest and responsive. A number of programmes were developed around these commitments. These commitments align the City of Tshwane’s service delivery policies and programmes to key Gauteng City Region (GCR) Accelerated Social Transformation Strategy priorities. The key areas covered for Social Development include improving access to quality early childhood development, expanding war on poverty, up scaling welfare to work and expanded public works programmes; reforming the welfare sector as well as combating substance abuse and gender based violence (Social Protection).
It is appreciated that the City of Tshwane and Gauteng Department of Social Development have a well-defined cooperative governance programme.
The performance plans of the two are well integrated and therefore serve as a basis for the two entities to have integrated monthly, quarterly and yearly reports that reflect on various social development issues in the municipal space. This includes the implementation of services that are not a funded mandate of the municipal budget yet they are implemented in collaboration with Gauteng Department of Social Development. This type of collaboration is encouraged and should be strengthened. The demand for social services in the City is huge and therefore the municipality should continue to provide land for social services. The provincial Department of Social Development has committed to continue to support the City of Tshwane to transition into assuming the responsibility of implementing its legislative mandate of establishing the and managing the functioning of Local Drug Action Committees. The City is advised to include the Local Drug Action Committee Programme in its Service Delivery and Budget Implementation Plan and to allocate the required financial, human and infrastructure resources to make it a reality.
Strategic pillar 2: A city that cares for its residents and promotes inclusivity deals with the following action plans;
i) Upgrading of informal settlement challenges through addressing provision of services in these areas to improve the quality of life
ii) Supporting vulnerable residents by providing a basket of free basic services to the indigents
iii) Building integrated communities by proving programmes such as supporting early childhood centres and developing social amenities iv) Promoting safe reliable and
affordable transportation and improving access to public health care services.
The City has prioritised Intergovernmental relations through working together with National and Provincial Government Departments to ensure alignment of policies, strategies and plans.
This enables the City to access various grants to ensure improved service delivery to the communities we serve.
There are many programmes that are funded through the operational budget and the City will continue to provide the required financial, human and infrastructure resources to make service delivery a reality.
We need to ensure that all strategic programmes of the City are well resourced.
It is noted and appreciated that the City of Tshwane has a Draft Integrated Water Management Plan (IWMP). The City is encouraged to finalise this Plan and submit it to the Gauteng Department of Agriculture and Rural Development (GDARD) for approval in terms of National Environmental Management Act, 2008 (Act 59 of 2008). This is important not only for the content to deal with water
The City will ensure that it finalises the Draft Integrated Water Management Plan and upon it being approved we will submit it to GDARD.
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Issue Raised by the MEC City of Tshwane’s Response/ Action management issues in the province as a whole, but
to foster a culture of cooperative governance and alignment, which is one of the most pressing issues throughout the development planning journey.
The City of Tshwane has further not indicated its awareness campaigns for waste management.
Such campaigns are crucial in the environmental care space to better educate communities on the importance of the environment as well as awareness to all facilities within the municipality.
Many communities within the province as a whole are littering and burning fossil fuels especially over the winter season and all those issues contribute to the quality of the environment and living spaces.
The City is therefore encouraged to develop waste minimization programmes, education and awareness campaigns to drive knowledge into communities
Strategic pillar 3: A City that delivers excellent services and protects the environment focuses on;
i) Delivering high quality services by reducing water losses and increasing water treatment capacity
ii) Safeguarding water and energy security and protecting the natural environment
iii) Promoting agriculture and rural development.
The City has awareness campaigns for waste management and environmental care. The City also host a variety of activities to support caring of the environment and these are budgeted for through the Operational Budget. The City will ensure that these programmes are communicated through various platforms of the media.
The City’s IDP makes no reference to greening initiatives with indigenous vegetation in the City. It is important that the City’s IDP indicates which areas within the Municipality will benefit from Greening initiatives. The City is encouraged to prioritise townships and informal settlements in this regard to ensure residents have access to green open spaces and parks for recreation
The City of Tshwane has developed a Tshwane Open Space Development Framework that provides the policy on how to manage green spaces in the City of Tshwane. This framework will be reviewed to include areas incorporated during amalgamation. Townships and informal settlements have the highest backlogs in terms of providing parks, resorts and sporting facilities and will therefore be prioritised for development.
CONCLUDING REMARKS The Integrated Development Plan continues to form
a crucial aspect of our evolving system of inter- governmental development planning. Over the years, the IDP has come to play a multiple role as a strategic planning tool of the municipality i.e.
serving as an instrument of inter-governmental alignment among various spheres of government as well as a crucial link between government and the communities we serve. The Municipality is encouraged to pay close attention to the issues during the review cycle of the IDP. As a Department we re-affirm our commitment to partner with the City in an ongoing effort to strengthen vertical alignment among various spheres towards making the IDP a plan of all government.
The City of Tshwane appreciates all the supports it received from Province and we will continue participating in the Inter-Governmental Forums that occurs both at National and Provincial level.
The City’s IGR Unit will continue to engage with all the Departments to ensure that the IDP aligns with different requirements of the Sector Departments.
Sector plan that are currently being reviewed will be circulated to the relevant Departments for comments and alignment. The IDP will continue to integrate all these plans and ensure that their programmes are implemented.
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