Engagement with Traditional Authorities
PHASE 2: PHASE 2: ENGAGEMENT WITH STAKEHOLDERS AFTER THE TABLING OF THE DRAFT IDP AND MTREF
9. DISABILITY
(a) That the Non-Governmental Organisations (NGO’s) funded by the City should be accountable for the funds;
(b) That the community should access the City of Tshwane website for the bus schedule to address the challenge of transport to access information in the City;
(c) That the Libraries should be disability friendly; and
(d) That the City should partner with the Hands of Love Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO) in Mamelodi responsible for Albino Awareness.
(B) STUDENT WELFARE COMMISSION:
(a) That the Tshwane University of Technology Soshanguve Campus would be used as illustration feature for the discussion;
(b) That the Institutional Student Representative President of the Tshwane University of Technology was nominated as the point of contact between the municipality and the institution to address and resolve arising issues;
(c) That concerns were raised with regards to the safety of students in institutions of higher learning;
(d) That streetlights near the campus required frequent repairing and monitoring;
(e) That students had no knowledge of political community representatives (Ward councillors);
(f) That concerns were raised of continuous illegal dumping along the Tshwane University of Technology Soshanguve Campus fence which creates an unpleasant smell;
(g) That a scouting mechanism be established for illegal dumping around the Tshwane University of Technology Soshanguve Campus fence and nearby areas;
(h) That the health clinic in the Tshwane University of Technology Soshanguve Campus was not supportive of student patients with regards to medical supplies;
(i) That the Maria-Rantho community clinic in Soshanguve Block L (via Phillip) refused to assist students on the basis that students belonged to a campus community;
(j) That escort services by the Tshwane Metro Police were required during exam periods;
(k) That the Agricultural sector students did not receive support from the
o 147 municipality with regards to rezoning for farming land; and
(l) That unclean water streams (caused by burst pipes) were flowing through some farming lands in the communities.
RESOLVED:
1. That representatives of students in higher learning institutions be invited as council sitting members;
2. That a community policing forum be established around the institution through the collaboration of the Tshwane Metro Police Department, nearby businesses, off-campus student accommodation representatives and the University;
3. That the Regional Head: Region 1 investigates repeated illegal dumping that occurs along the Tshwane University of Technology Soshanguve Campus fence;
4. That the Chairperson escalate the matter of rezoning of land for agricultural purposes to the Member of the Mayoral Committee for Environmental Management and the Member of the Mayoral Committee for Economic Development;
5. That a meeting with the following stakeholders be convened by end of April 2019 to discuss among others the safety of students in and around their campuses:
Tshwane Metro Police Department;
South African Police Services;
Office of the Executive Mayor;
Stakeholder Management in the Office of the Executive Mayor; and
Student representatives from institutions of higher learning (Universities and TVET Colleges).
(C) COMMISSION ON YOUTH ECONOMIC EMPOWERMENT:
(1) That Tshwane is the next second leading Municipality and is highly rural and There is a need for space to be utilized for Agriculture; and that Agri-Farming to partner with SMME’s; That the Tshwane Fruit and Vegetables Market be modernized and to have an automated pricing that will be streamlined;
(2) That Ms Lebogang Dani from Centurion has opened a business of selling Meat and has requested the city should assist her;
(3) That the Executive Mayor should assist the emerging entrepreneurs with the establishment of Entrepreneurs Networking Structures;
(4) That business training opportunities be made available by the City, e.g.
Tshepo 10 000;
(5) That the Executive Mayor should establish a Local Kasie Hub where space is given to SEDA, NYDA and GEP so that skills training can be closer to
entrepreneurs and the alignment of youth programmes to address their specific needs;
(6) That the Skills Centre and FET Centres be made available in all the regions and to make them accessible on our website and all Community Libraries
o 148 (7) That sector unions from well established companies to partner with the City
To help emerging SMME’s.
(8) That Financial Literacy Programmes be tailor made for young people;
That youth programmes should be aligned with the youth that will also address their needs and interests
(9) That the youth be assisted with training on SARS registration;
(10) That automotive companies around Tshwane, from well established companies to partner with the City of Tshwane where small businesses can also be incubated;
(11) That Industrial Hubs be identified to benefit young and emerging entrepreneurs;
(12) That the youth have a problem with the Tshwane Website and therefore cannot register on Tshwane Data Base;
(13) That a plan to empower entrepreneurs to start their businesses and to overcome the CoT barriers should be outlined;
(14) That a Data Base for youth entrepreneurs for Tshwane be developed;
(15) That an email address for Tshwane Youth be developed so that the youth should be able to forward their challenges to that email address for the Executive Mayor to respond;
(16) That the youth has already lost trust in the City due to non-responsiveness especially after having presented their business proposals and indicated that they are not fully represented in all structures;
(17) That a young official/politician be identified, who will look at stakeholder and Business opportunities that can facilitate meetings, resolutions tracking and to also identify industries that has the interest on youth development;
(18) That the City of Tshwane’s payment of suppliers by procurement always takes more than the normal minimum 10 days cycle and there’s a need to have a sustainable procurement processes
(19) That funding should be made available to SMME’s;
(20) That the Tshwane Youth Business Forum be established where all
submissions of Terms of Reference and the Local Government Legislation that governs young entrepreneurs will be clearly outlined;
(21) That the city should create a Mobile Friendly Web-Site that speaks to Youth Summit Tshwane on the following:
To speak to the registration of Businesses and Tender opportunities;
Terms of Reference for the youth;
NQ Level 5: Offered by UNISA – The City of Tshwane should also have these type of courses to empower the youth;
A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) has been signed between UNISA and the City of Tshwane that can be used as a benchmarking tool, to improve on Supply Chain processes;
To receive sms’ notifications after registering with the City’s Supply Chain.
The Youth Web-Site was created: [email protected]
o 149 (22) That product testing be done with CSIR;
(23) That the City of Tshwane to make available a Youth Start-Up Building for the youth to be able to rent out the space for business opportunities;
(24) That the MMC for Economic Development ensure that:
YDU be given a budget;
Start-Up Hubs in all the Regions be created;
The new YDU By-Law be developed;
The Youth should have Transport Advertising Digital space;
The Youth should be able to advertise on Tshwane Web-Site;
The offices of YDU in all 7 Regions of Tshwane be made available;
The city should develop a Creative Arts for the youth;
The youth should be able to access Tourism department;
That the youth should have an Artistic Hub;
That there is merging of businesses;
That the City creates an email address and domain names throughout the city to empower SMME’s.
(25) Safety around the City of Tshwane: (To be operated by Co-operatives or Emerging youth companies.
That cameras around the CBD and CCTV be installed;
That the City should supply security programmes for the youth; and (26) That job creation for the youth will be available.
(27) That 1 Lap-top be donated to the Youth who are doing farming.
(28) That MMC Brink to be tasked to check the problem in pricing of goods sold by farmers at the market regarding price disparity between different people and to update the youth on the matter.
(29) That the youth networking sessions to be tailor-made;
(30) That the youth should have a representative who can sit in meetings to ensure that processes and decisions taken are free and fair; and
(31) That the youth should also have sector union member who will be representing them in different structures.
(32) It was agreed that grants for SMMEs should be tailor-made for easy access.
(33) It was agreed that the youth should participate by partnering with the CoT to utilize the city’s parks in Tshwane.
(34) That the youth should be trained and comply with SARS by registering their companies and understand the Legislation that governs businesses.
(35) That entrepreneurs from Tshwane should also be registered on the data- base of the City of Tshwane and 30% of tendering should go to young people; and
(36) That the youth should nominate a representative to be mandated to manage everything in terms of tendering with the city.
(37) That the youth should be supported and be able to tender with the city and to do away with red tapes, e.g. BBB Funding.
(38) That a tracking tool be created for the Youth so that they are able to access resolutions taken at the Summit.
o 150 (39) That the youth should have access to all Tshwane Skills Centres.
(40) That the youth should be able to utilize all industrial hubs/facilities; and (41) That the Terms of Reference should govern the Business Forum.
(42) That the youth should be provided with space to rent at a reasonable cost;
and
(43) That the youth should have a good and continuous relationship with YDU.
(C) YOUTH SKILLS DEVELOPMENT COMMISSION
The following issues were raised in the Youth Skills Development Commission:
That:
(1) Training on subsistence farming is necessary for the youth in the city to alleviate poverty and gain skills on farming;
(2) The City to look at a way to build facilities for the school outs formal schooling as they are not accepted anywhere within government institution; That concerns were raised with regards to the safety of students in institutions of higher learning;
(3) That the City allocate budget to pay for the NGO’s to acquire assessor certificates and Ika-Industria in Bronkhorspruit buildings to be transformed into training institutions;
(4) Casilda offered to train youth around the city on how to present themselves in an interview. She will provide the services voluntarily to assist the youth in the city to be marketable. 073 768 7889;
(5) That there is a lot of red tape when it comes to Arts Graduates within the City especially on film and theatre production. It is noted that the City has a lot of talent and the City can provide assistance by engaging the NGO’s around the arts sector. The city could also organise a career expo or a mini career development workshop to assist the unemployed youth. The city was challenges to remove all the gate keepers where some people/organisation has to do the work and those who didn’t work to take the glory;
(6) Matla a Basha is an NGO that helps youth to find jobs buy preparing their cv’s and facilitates interviews;
(7) A movement called Total Shut Down is making efforts to determine the linkage between multi sectoral committees within the city. It is noted that the youth lacks knowledge and struggle to access vital information that could assist them to find work and other services;
(8) That the youth from region 7, Bronkhorspruit and areas around do not get any assistance from the City. The area is dominated by poor communities and majority of youth are not working. The city is therefore urged to assist youth in mining skills to be able to find jobs in the mining sector in the area and also with facilities;
(9) That Eerterust in region 6 is dominated by drug users’ especially young people;
basic teaching and moral regeneration is vital;
(10) That Winterveldt (5 & 10 Morgan) lack facilities such as sports grounds,
o 151 libraries, skills centres and clinics. The affected wards are 9, 19 and 24. Some of the facilities are being hijacked by individuals within the wards and are inaccessible;
(11) Jacob Thapelo Mahlangu Foundation is an organisation that is aimed at inspiring youth within the city. They also take in volunteers to work with youth that are addicted to drugs and violence;
(12) Students on the rise commission deals with youth around region 3 Atteridgeville by data collecting. They require the City to come on board in facilitating all unemployed youth in the area;
RESOLVED:
1. That Malcom Buys from Eerterust give more details on subsistence farming and the requirements to qualify as land acquisition is one of the requirement, 076 584 3796;
2. That a community in Bronkhorspruit should know that the land is in the process of being transferred to the City from former Mpumalanga Homeland hence places like Ekandustria are not accessible. The city is doing all in its might to get those properties transferred for investors and job creation; that implies to all other industrial sites such as Babelegi in Hammasnkraal.
3. The city will also look at the proposal to allocate funds for more training needs especially on agricultural sector;
4. Kagiso has inherited land that she would gladly donate a portion to the city for agricultural purposes. The department of Agriculture, Environment and parks must be engaged going forward;
5. That the city has taken some of the students and registered them through TVET college then later intergrade them with other high learning institution such University of Pretoria;
6. The department of health in the City has a programme with the University of Pretoria in relation to drug abuse, therefore all NGO’s in the health field should link up with the department for more information;
7. The city will engage with big companies like BMW, Nissan and Ford to form partnerships to facilitate internships and other skills development activities for youth. TLMA is too small to accommodate all the training needs within the city;
8. Soft skills to be proposed at TLMA and be facilitated in conjunction with other interest groups to groom youth in the city;
9. It was proposed that all NGO’s dealing with youth programme to form a networking forum were information could be shared.