Chapter 11 - Sedibeng District Municipality

2 LEGISLATIVE FRAMEWORK FOR TRANSPORT
This chapter describes the implications of national and provincial policy and
legislative framew ork of relevance to the SDM from a transportation point of view .
This chapter concludes w ith a discussion about the role of municipalities in terms of
the National Land Transport Act, 2009 (Act 5 of 2009).
2.1 National Policy and Legislation
(a) White Paper on National Transport Policy, 1996
The DoT published a White Paper on National Transport Policy in 1996 w hich states
the vision for transport in South Africa as follow s:
“Provide safe, reliable, effective, efficient, and fully integrated transport operations
and infrastructure which will best meet the needs of freight and passenger customers
at improving levels of service and cost in a fashion which supports government
strategies for economic and social development whilst being environmentally and
economically sustainable”.
The six broad goals as outlined in the White Paper are:
• to support the goals of the Reconstruction and Development Programme
(RDP) in meeting basic needs, grow ing the economy, developing human
resources, and democratising decision making;
• to enable customers requiring transport for people or goods to access the
transport system in w ays which best satisfy their chosen criteria;
• to improve the safety, security, reliability, quality and speed of transporting
goods and people;
• to improve South Africa’s competitiveness and that of its transport
infrastructure and operations through greater effectiveness and efficiency to
better meet the needs of different customer groups, both locally and globally;
• to invest in infrastructure or transport systems in w ays which satisfy social,
economic or strategic investment criteria; and
• to achieve the above objectives in a manner w hich is economically and
environmentally sustainable, and minimises negative side effects.
(b) Moving South Africa, the Action Agenda, 1990
The vision for transport in 2020 as formulated in the Moving South Africa project,
commissioned by NDoT and completed in the late 1990s, is as follows:
“By 2020, transport in South Africa will meet the needs of freight and passenger
customers for accessible, affordable, safe, frequent, high quality, reliable, efficient
and seamless transport operations and infrastructure. It will do so in a constantly
upgrading, innovative, flexible and economically and environmentally sustainable
manner. In so doing, transport will support and enable government strategies,
particularly those for growth, development, redistribution, employment creation and
social integration, both in South Africa and in the Southern African region”.
The strategy is to consolidate core transport assets into high volume corridor strategic
netw orks and dense development nodes, assisted by a supporting netw ork, in areas
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