ON IDP ALIGNMENT

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PRESENTATION ON IDP ALIGNMENT
2005 Passion for delivery
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STRUCTURE OF PRESENTATION

• Legal background of TMDM
• Vision
• Demographic Profile
• Key priority issues for TMDM alignment to FSGDS
  NSDP priorities
• Resource allocation and TMDM budget

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• Needs analysis in terms of priority areas
• Opportunities in terms of FSGDS NSDP
• Challenges

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Legal background

• Thabo Mofutsanyana District Municipality (DC19)
  was established in terms of the Municipal
  Structures Act (117 of 1998) and proclaimed in
  the Provincial Gazette, Notice no 184, on 28
  September 2000. the following local
  municipalities, established under the same
  notice, fall within the district municipal area

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TMDM MAP
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VISION
To create integrated, self-reliant and
sustainable communities throughout the Thabo
Mofutsanyana highlands, with financially viable,
participative and developmental local
municipalities IF YOU DONT KNOW WHERE YOU
ARE GOING, YOU WILL PROBABLY END UP SOMEWHERE
ELSE. DR LAURENCE J PETER, 1991, CANADIAN
EDUCATOR
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TMDM 2005/6 IDP BUDGET
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TMDM 2005/6 IDP BUDGET
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DEMOGRAPHIC PROFILE
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TMDM IDP PRIORITIES LINK TO FSGDS PRIORITIES

• SUSTAINABLE INFRASTRUCTURE
• Water and sanitation
• Electricity
• Roads, streets and stormwater
• Housing
• Cemeteries
• Telecomunication
• Land development

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Economic Development Job creation

• Agricultural development
• Tourism development
• Land reform
• Industrial and skills development
• Mining
• Manufacturing

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Social Welfare

• Health services
• Environmental management
• Safety and Security
• Disaster management
• Education and Training
• Emergency services
• Transport

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INSTITUTIONAL DEVELOPMENT

• Increase Revenue base
• Capacity building
• Corporate governance
• Intergovernmental relations

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FSGDS PRIORITIES

• Economic Growth, Development Employment
• Social and Human Development
• Justice, Crime Prevention Security
• Efficient Governance and Administration

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NSDP IDP

• In terms of NSDP high Development and Investment
  must take place in the areas that has high
  economic potential
• In terms of our IDP focus is on provision of
  basic services human development, that is we
  should put more emphasis on education, skills
  training
• We must also invest on provision of basic
  services rather than building mega cities where
  buying power does not exist

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NSDP FOCUS

• Aimed at addressing poverty the challenge of
  economic growth job creation
• Government should direct its investment dev
  initiatives to ensure sustainable maximum impact
• It addresses the issue of spatial forms

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TMDM NEEDS

• TMDM is one of the district which is faced with
  the challenge of bucket eradication
• All local municipalities in the district are
  still using buckets or pitlatrines
• Water meter installation to implement free basic
  water
• Increase the water capacity e.g. build dams,
  installation of water pipeline
• Maintenance of Roads Stormwater channel

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NEEDS

• Electricity e.g. in-house connections (FBS),
  upgrade electrical infrastructure
• Housing
• Recreational facilities
• Health services still not adequate
• Human development e.g. skills training
• Investment opportunities job creation

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DIHLABENG
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DIHLABENG
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DIHLABENG
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SETSOTO
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PHUMELELA
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PHUMELELA LOCAL MUNICIPALITY
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PHUMELELA LOCAL MUNICIPALITY
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PHUMELELA LOCAL MUNICIPALITY
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PHUMELELA LOCAL MUNICIPALITY
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PHUMELELA
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PHUMELELA
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PHUMELELA LOCAL MUNICIPALITY
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MALUTI A PHOFUNG
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MALUTI A PHOFUNG
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MALUTI A PHOFUNG LOCAL MUNICIPALITY
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MALUTI A PHOFUNG
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MALUTI
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NKETOANA
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TMDM PERSPECTIVE

• Infrastructure development to enhance WETLANDS in
  Memel for tourism attraction.
• Bucket eradication provision of water
  sanitation in the district.
• Development to focus along the Maluti
  transfronteir and the district tourism route.
• Dry port in Harrismith as a major possibility to
  bring economic growth in the district

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Challenges facing the Municipality

• Capacity to implement IDP projects in time
• Different service provider for electricity is a
  problem
• Land Issues.
• Land claim issues
• Land to build houses
• Service land
• Proper communication strategy.
• Ward committees not effective in some arears due
  to lack of resources.
• Invest in human development in terms of capacity
  building, training and acquisition of skills.
• Counter-funding of MIG projects.
• Participation of sector departments and SOE in
  the IDP processes.

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Challenges facing the Municipality (cont.)

• Maintenance of infrastructure by Municipalities
• Sanitation
• Roads infrastructure

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FEW THINGS ARE IMPOSSIBLE TO DILLIGENCE AND
SKILLGREAT WORKS ARE PERFORMED NOT BY STRENGTH,
BUT PERSEVERENCE. SAMUEL JOHNSON (1709-1784)
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