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Chapter 11 - Sedibeng District Municipality

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different parts of the province complements each other in consolidating<br />

Gauteng as an economic hub of Africa and an internationally recognised global<br />

city-region”.<br />

The follow ing key success factors have been identified for the Gauteng Global City-<br />

Region:<br />

• clear leadership;<br />

• a vision and strategy;<br />

• effective institutional relations;<br />

• strong economic clusters;<br />

• good telecommunications and business linkages;<br />

• spatial coalitions of partners working together; and<br />

• a balanced approach to development.<br />

It is the intention of the Gauteng Provincial Government to ensure alignment of all its<br />

major policy and investment initiatives w ith the eleven strategic Global City-Region<br />

pathw ays listed below :<br />

• grow ing and managing a Global City-Region know ledge-based economy;<br />

• advance the positioning of Gauteng, including regionally, as an economically<br />

active and sustainable city region;<br />

• integrated planning, implementation and coordination of economic grow th and<br />

competitiveness;<br />

• integrated planning, implementation and coordination of social development,<br />

inclusion and cohesion;<br />

• improved coordination, collective decision-making, and resource sharing<br />

across departments and municipalities;<br />

• branding and communication of the Gauteng City Region;<br />

• benchmarking, monitoring and evaluation;<br />

• mobilise high level “international” initiatives to enhance socio-economic grow th<br />

and leave global, long lasting impressions on the GCR;<br />

• GautengCity region long-term planning;<br />

• alignment of strategies w ith the Global City Region Perspective; and<br />

• Global City-Region Technical Steering Committee.<br />

3.1.4 Gauteng Transport Management Authority<br />

It is essential to establish the correct institutional framew ork that w ill be able to drive<br />

and manage the identified need for an integrated, sustainable and provincial-w ide<br />

transport management system. The intention of this institutional framew ork and the<br />

resultant entity is to plan, coordinate and facilitate transportation functions w ithin the<br />

provincial context and as determined in the relevant legislation.Fundamental to the<br />

success of the Global City Region is the development of measures to strengthen both<br />

local government and intergovernmental relations.<br />

This provincial planning, coordination and facilitation transport authority’s mandate<br />

would be to ensure integration across transport infrastructure and operations within<br />

Gauteng. It w ould also set the parameters for the establishment of municipal<br />

transport authorities. This provincial transport authority w ill be responsible for<br />

rationalised service delivery for a variety of transport-related public portfolios.<br />

SDM DITP, 2008 to 2013 22 31 Aug 2010

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