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Africa. Five core documents should be carefully examined by readers in search of
background information on the RDp·.
12.4 Water and sanitation planning in black urban areas of NatallKwaZulu
12.4.1 RSA-KwaZulu Development Project guidelines
The technical co-ordinators of the RSA-KwaZulu Development Project, namely, Van Wyk
and Louw Inc. (now Africon Engineering International Ltd), PO Box 1319, Westville, 3630,
compiled a series of guidelines/standards for the upgrading of existing areas; and for the
planning of new residential suburbs and towns in black settled areas. The guidelines have
importantimplications for the design of water and sanitation infrastructure, including water
demand. The guidelines were developed from the so-called "Blue book" and the "Green
book", produced by the (former) Department of Community Development and the (former)
Department of Development Aid respectively··. Planning guidelines provided by the
RSA-KwaZulu Development Project concern inter alia amenities (Table La); secondly,
infrastructure options (Table L9) and thirdly, water consumption guidelines (Table L10).
Department of Community Development water demand (design) data are presented in
Table L11.
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See African National Congress, 1994. The Reconstruction and Development Programme: a Policy
Framework. Umanyano Publications, Johannesburg, 147 p., as well as'Anonymous, 1994. RDP
White Paper: discussion document, IGovemment Printer], [Pretoria], 60 p., and Anonymous, 1994.
White Paper on Reconstruction and Development, WPJ/1994, Government Gazette No. 16085 of the
23rd November 1994, Government Printer, Pretoria, 81 p. (Government Notice GN 1954/94). See
in addition, the RDP Monitor, published by Stock Infonnation Services Ltd, PO Box 938, Pinegowrie,
2123. The monthly publication (VOL 1(1), June/July/August 1994 - current), provides brief details
on both national and international media coverage of the RDP, with editorial comment. Examine also,
RDP News, a monthlylbi-monthly compendium of RDP projects and news (No. 1, January
1995 - current), published by the South African Communication Service, Private Bag X745, Pretoria,
0001. Further infonnation on the RDP can be obtained through the perusal of newspaper columns.
In this regard. it should be noted that the University of the Orange Free State provides a cuttings
service (known as INCHIINEG), based on 85 South African newspapers and journals (see Table B7
in Chapter 2). Contact the Institute for Contemporary History, PO Box 2320, Bloemfontein, 9300.
The Regional Research and Reporting Corporation, PO Box 13060,Clubview, 0014, publishes Focus,
a monthly collation of important press cuttings on political, economic and social news, drawn from
10 South African newspapers.
The latter Department assumed some of the housing functions of the Department of Community
Development, following the Department's closure in 1983. The Department of Development Aid was
first known as the Department of Native Affairs, thereafter the Department of Bantu Administration
and Development, then the Department of Plural Relations and Development, and was subsequently
known as the Department of Co-operation and Development. The Department was dissolved in
December 1991.