Vukuzakhe Programme

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KWAZULU-NATALDEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORT

• Vukuzakhe Programme
• Emerging Contractor Development Programme

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Vukuzakhe Programme
Taking Civil Engineering into the Realms of
Social Engineering

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Quote

• It is precisely because the majority of
  citizens in South Africa are poor that our
  government has targeted the eradication of
  poverty as its number one priority. And it is
  this priority that must necessarily inform the
  way we allocate and spend public monies.
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• Central to the lasting eradication of poverty is
  the creation of a growing business sector that
  creates sustainable jobs which increase the
  productivity of our country. This small business
  sector must reflect the economic empowerment of
  ordinary citizens and not just the upper echelons
  of society.
• The Honourable Minister of Transport Mr
  Sibusiso Ndebele
• Budget Speech 2002 / 2003

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Introduction

• Provision of an effective, professional and
  consultative service to those most neglected
  during the apartheid era
• Creation of an enabling environment for the
  emergence of a viable small, medium and micro
  enterprise (SMME) sector.

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Introduction

• Since in 1994 the budget allocated to the Roads
  for Rural Development programme has a increased
  from a mere R3 million to excess of R300 m
• Hence Vukuzakhe, together with our labour
  intensive road maintenance programme, Zibambele,
  have become flagship programmes in the struggle
  to uplift the rural economy in KwaZulu-Natal

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Introduction

• Growth in our Roads for Rural Development
  programme owes much to our tradition of adopting
  a data driven approach
• methodologies that promote participatory
  democracy for example our Community Access Roads
  Needs Study (CARNS )
• The political buy-in that resulted in providing
  the Department with the necessary budgets to
  develop ongoing and sustainable roadwork
  programmes in rural communities.

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Introduction

• The implementation of Vukuzakhe as a Staged
  Advancement programme introduced targeted
  procurement for emerging contractors
• reserved Stage 1 contract opportunities for
  communities living within the vicinity of these
  roads.

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Introduction

• roads provided a unique vehicle to kick start
  stagnant rural economies.
• create opportunities for economic and social
  growth,
• create work and skills development in a unique
  combination of project (construction) and
  programmes (maintenance)

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Introduction

• road budgets could be motivated to put the
  provincial economy on a labour absorptive growth
  path. It was this logic that informed our Road
  to Wealth and Job Creation Initiative which was
  tabled at the October 1998 Job Summit.

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Introduction

• As the road authority in KwaZulu-Natal we have
  been mindful of our public mandate
• to construct and maintain a balanced road
  network.
• the process of establishing a balanced road
  network,
• create new sustainable jobs, new economic
  opportunities for new market entrants,
• facilitate the transfer of skills and, in
  particular, alleviate poverty.

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• ZIBAMBELE
• ROAD MAINTENANCE SYSTEM

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ZIBAMBELE

• Zibambele, which means doing it for ourselves
• Zibambele is the Zulu name given to our
  adaptation of the Lengthman Contract System which
  was first developed in Kenya.
• cost efficient means of maintaining the road
  network in deep rural communities

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ZIBAMBELE

• focuses on women headed households with some 95
  to 98 of all contracts being awarded to them
• The number of contracts awarded in the 2001/2002
  budget year was just over 10 000.
• In 2002/2003 financial year we have budgeted for
  14 000 Zibambele contracts.

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ZIBAMBELE

• has created sustainable work opportunities for
  the poorest of the poor and, at the same time,
  maintained public assets that are valued by rural
  communities.
• In 2000 Zibambele scooped the coveted Impumelelo
  Innovations Award as the most innovative
  programme focussed on the reduction of poverty
  and the improvement of the quality of life of the
  poor.

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• VUKUZAKHE
• EMERGING CONTRACTOR DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME

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VUKUZAKHE

• has established a regulatory framework to promote
  and support emerging contractors
• allows for targeted procurement procedures which
  are in line with affirmative action policy to
  address the legacy of apartheid and gender
  discrimination.

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VUKUZAKHE

• Staged Advancement programme in which each
  advancement entails higher levels of risk to the
  contractor
• Stage 1 contractors are required to only provide
  small hand tools and labour.
• As they advance through stages so too does their
  responsibility to manage and supply all plant and
  materials.

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VUKUZAKHE

• The programme has grown from a zero base to 911
  contracts with a contract value of more than R160
  million in the 2000/2001 financial year.

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VUKUZAKHE

• This year the Department has committed funds to
  tackle persistent barriers that still compromise
  the performance of emerging contractors and
  restrict the normalisation of the road
  construction and maintenance industry.

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VUKUZAKHE

• Emerging contractors continue to experience
  difficulties in accessing appropriate training,
  credit and affordable plant.
• We have held constructive discussions with one of
  the finance institutions with a view to
  establishing tripartite agreements between them,
  Vukuzakhe contractors and ourselves

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VUKUZAKHE

• Established in-house monitoring systems to deal
  with Emerging Contractor Tender and Production
  Rates

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VUKUZAKHE

• also concluded fruitful discussions with the
  Construction Education and Training Authority
  (CETA) to pilot a skills development and training
  programme in KwaZulu-Natal.
• The pilot phase of the project will be restricted
  to 100 learnership opportunities for Stage 2, 3
  and 4 Vukuzakhe contractors

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VUKUZAKHE

• also assisted Vukuzakhe contractors to form their
  own associations.
• A training programme has been designed to build
  the capacity of associations to provide their
  members with information and services.

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• ARRUP
• AFRICAN RENAISSANCE
• UPGRADING PROGRAMME

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ARRUP

• KZN DOT has launched several major road
  upgrading projects which have been designed in
  such a way that all road builders become work
  together co-operatively as a team to build the
  new face of the construction industry in
  KwaZulu-Natal

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ARRUP

• Contracts have been awarded so that the well
  established contractor teams with emerging
  contractors to build the roads on independent
  contracts but as interdependent contractors

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ARRUP

• The ARRUP projects are proving a fertile
  environment to develop innovative road design and
  construction methods
• utilised to plan and implement a new dispensation
  that goes beyond the delivery of road
  infrastructure.

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ARRUP

• All large road construction projects, in the
  KwaZulu-Natal road network, are now being
  designed and implemented to ensure the effective
  participation of all stakeholders in what is a
  conscious effort to normalise the road
  construction industry on a project by project
  basis. 

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• CONCLUSION

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CONCLUSION

• KZN DOT has succeeded, or is in the process of
  succeeding, in shifting the parameters of the
  engineering profession in South Africa.
• The introduction of new development paradigms has
  forced engineers to think laterally from the hard
  science of road construction to the social
  science of rural development. Road engineers are
  developing social engineering skills.

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CONCLUSION

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• The construction industry is considered the
  second most unequal sector in South Africa. It
  is calculated to have a GINI co-efficient of
  0,438 which places it second only to the
  agricultural sector. However, the construction
  sector carries the additional legacy of Bantu
  education into an industry that is dominated by
  science, mathematics and technology. Despite
  this we have made very considerable progress and
  we have undoubtedly put in place solid
  foundations that will allow us to move forward
  boldly to develop a representative industry in
  KwaZulu-Natal. We are now beginning to tackle
  the enormous challenge of fast tracking equity
  within the construction sector by developing
  innovative training methodologies and programmes
  which will allow us to overcome the digital
  divide.
•   The Honourable Minister of Transport Mr
  Sibusiso Ndebele
• Report back Summit 2002 / 2003
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