Engagement with Traditional Authorities
PHASE 2: PHASE 2: ENGAGEMENT WITH STAKEHOLDERS AFTER THE TABLING OF THE DRAFT IDP AND MTREF
18. STAKEHOLDER SUMMIT 30 APRIL 2019 TSHWANE HOUSE
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.
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Informal trading transparency: corruption of local traders, Municipal Officials (PoP) and feedback on concerns
Creative Industries: Be considered and outline the Pillar 1
What is the Short term /long term programme for developing the youth
Recreation or football facilities: continuous maintenance in Makhaza in Atteridgeville and Security and Safety against drugs
Informal trader’s constitution Policy lack of progress.
Promises not fulfilled from last elections and lack of Government support.
By-Laws must be taught to the people.
No commitment from the City of Tshwane.
Personal request - company assist the youth.
Training, up-skills, request or source work creating partnerships with insurance companies.
No support for City of Tshwane - portal required for efficiency.
Invitation to visit premises in Mamelodi.
No actions, responsible people completing duties.
Facilitate job creation.
How the Industry can become visible.
Information dissemination concerning Bus Services in Region 7, gratitude to be extended to Mayor.
Development in Mamelodi
Facilities that are locked must be opened
There is no consultation in Mamelodi.
What happened to the stipend that trader leaders used to get?
18.2 PILLAR 2: Caring for residents and promote inclusivity Achievements in the 2018/19 Financial Year:
Informal settlements – upgrading serviced stands.
Supporting vulnerable residents – assist poorer residents o Indigent programme – free Municipal services
o Foodbank
o HIV/AIDS/TB/STI’s – focus on decreasing infections especially amongst young girls
o Tshwane Mayoral Aids Council
Land and Housing – Acquired 7 land parcels for housing
Community and social development
o 7 Arts and culture programmes implemented o 5 Heritage programmes
o 7 x Library and Information Services – fencing at Art Museum and new libraries in Ekangala and Sokhulumi.
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Classic)
Improving Healthcare
o Finish building projects such as the Rayton Clinic and the Phahameng Clinic upgrade
Future plans for the 2019/20 Financial Year:
Rudimentary services for Informal Settlements
Sport (12x Programmes)
Public transportation
Health – clinic accessibility, 1x Mobile Clinic.
Continue building and upgrading clinic
18.3. PILLAR 3: Delivery of excellent services and protection of the environment
City should have rapid response team to try and cap water issues.
Contractor was appointed but the water still got diluted.
Huge water leaks need attention:
o Tender for maintenance of water losses opened with the City (To support in terms of the bigger scope of work)
o Refurbishment of waste treatment plants o Raw water quality has deteriorated
What is the size in terms of capacity
o A panel of consultants were appointed at Utility Services to shorten period of awarding of tenders
o Panel is at evaluation stage, to get it by end of May.
o Size of plant produces 54 kilolitres a day
o R3million put aside for design and assessment
o Education on the handling of water in the City must be given
Should collaborate with Utility Services Department to get the level of Technology to partner and solve seemingly impossible questions
o Agreed that issues involving water be taken seriously. Too much Technology needed around water issues
o Engineer appointed to do an assessment on damages done at Klipgat water treatment works
o Real commitment to deal with the City’s waste water treatment is needed
Does Council have anything in place to support farmers?
o It is one of the elements that the City is looking at as part of broader development strategy
Drainage from Rosslyn passing through to Block XX Soshanguve causes overflowing during rainy days
o Storm water open channel
o Roll out plan on storm water systems
The Municipality must do something about littering across the City.
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Waste pickers dump waste next to rivers.
Hundreds of bags and litter was removed.
There must be a solution to litter dumped next to rivers and spillage next to roads.
There is not enough public toilets in the City. They must be secured.
The City must enforce recycling By-laws.
Storm water and sewerage By-laws must be enforced. People do not deal with the circumstances of their actions:
o Education is an element that is missing
o The Executive Mayor mentioned the matter of waste picked o The City should respond to the challenges
o The matter regarding the storm water ingress was taken to court by a member of the community.
o Embarking on illegal dumping (Programme underway) o Need to strengthen By-
o laws involving illegal dumping
In the next financial year, the City is looking at upgrading access control to waste o Sites where there is illegal dumping are cleaned by there are no signs to
inform people that they are not allowed to dump there, which gives them space to dump there again.
o Soshanguve Ward 89: Mushrooming of informal settlements in Region 1, but the Government is not doing enough to provide them with spilling bins.
Community dumps everywhere.
o There is no well-deserved place for dumping.
o Councillors are not attending to such issues and only come during election
Civic involvement is important.
Councillors not attending public meetings must be reported to the Office of the Chief Whip.
The community is not assisting with cleaning and attending matters affecting their lives.
18.4. PILLAR 4. Keeping residents safe
300 CCTV cameras are being fixed.
Issue with homeless people, more especially the Nyope Children.
Metro Police must assist more with problems of substance and alcohol abuse.
There is a problem with unruliness and By-laws are not being implemented. How do the SAPS and Metro Police work together to control this matter?
There is an emergency number for these problems, it is 107. Apparently the response time is very good.
There will be in-house employment of security personnel over the next 3 years.
Unsafe businesses – scrapyards that accept manhole covers as scrap. This creates an unsafe environment as these manholes are then left open. Metro Police is looking into it.
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The City is looking at highly vulnerable informal settlements and Housing is working hard to ensure they are also safe.
18.5 PILLAR 5. Open, honest and responsive City
CAPACITATION of COMMUNITIES with regard to knowledge about the responsibilities of their local government to them and their own responsibilities to local government, is lacking
a. There is a need to educate communities about the work of local government and about what the legislation says. Holding scheduled engagement events with communities without an adequate level of capacitation and appreciation of the purpose and responsibilities of the Municipality, is a simply a compliance exercise.
The INDIGENT PROGRAMME is not well understood and the processes to get to be formally registered as an indigent consumer take too long: many community members who qualify to be on the indigent register are not on the register as a result of the cumbersome processes.
POOR RESPONSE by communities when it comes to engaging with the municipality: there is the perception that the City of Tshwane is against community members, and the City has to change this perception so that the communities can be more positively responsive when the City requests engagement events with them.
COMMUNICATION from the City must be simple, relevant and interactive. The criticism is that the City’s communication takes a silo approach and it is not holistic as to taking account of issues which share synergies.
DISCPLINE. This pillar lends itself to discipline since discipline is the glue of good governance. Where discipline lacks, and in Tshwane it does sorely lack, there will always be serious challenges with effecting proper service delivery and in fact, chaos only will reign. The City, without disciplined residents will fail in its efforts of providing proper service delivery.
COMMUNICATION PLATFORMS: the City of Tshwane website. The website, as an important channel of communication and engagement platform with residents, must be functional at all times, must carry correct legislated information, municipal services information and it must be interactive.
INTEGRITY. Integrity was recognised as an essential value in the business of local government and as the lever of clean government. Tshwane is introducing an Integrity Management Framework which Council will adopt, and it will fall under the custodianship of the Executive Mayor and the Mayoral Committee. Senior management will become integrity champions and all employees will fully subscribe to the framework and make it part-and-parcel of their daily operations.
CREDIT CONTROL as a tool used to avoid consumer accounts falling into arrears, must be efficiently used through giving it an early detection, functionality that will at an early stage detect potential arrear situations.
HOLISTIC VALUE CHAIN RECOGNITION: When there is need to make changes in policies, policy authors must recognise the potential danger of disturbing the
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