NANCEFIELD Ext.1 Sub-Area 10 NATURENA Sub-Area 13 ... - Joburg

REGIONAL SPATIAL DEVELOPMENT FRAMEWORK. 2006/7 

ADMINISTRATIVE REGION 6 AND REGION 10 

NANCEFIELD Ext.1 Sub-Area 10 

NATURENA Sub-Area 13 

NATURENA EXT.5 Sub-Area 13 



NATURENA EXT.13 Sub-Area 13 






NOORDGESIG Sub-Area 2 

NOORDGESIG EXT.1 Sub-Area 2 

ORLANDO Sub-Area 2 

ORLANDO EAST Sub-Area 2 

ORLANDO WEST Sub-Area 2 

ORLANDO WEST EXT.1 Sub-Area 2 



PHIRI Sub-Area 8 

PIMVILLE ZONE 1 Sub-Area 11 







POWER PARK Sub-Area 1 

POWER PARK EXT.2 Sub-Area 1 

POWER PARK EXT.3 Sub-Area 2 

PROTEA GLEN Sub-Area 7 

PROTEA GLEN EXT.1 Sub-Area 7 







PROTEA INDUSTRIAL PARK Sub-Area 7 

PROTEA NORTH Sub-Area 7 

PROTEA SOUTH Sub-Area 7 

RACECOURSE Sub-Area 10 

RIVASDALE Sub-Area 13 

SENAOANE Sub-Area 8 

SLOVOVILLE Sub-Area 15 

SLOVOVILLE EXT.1 Sub-Area 15 

TLADI Sub-Area 6 

THULANI Sub-Area 15 

TSEPISONG Sub-Area 15 

ZOLA Sub-Area 6 

ZONDI Sub-Area 6 

Section 4: Sub-Area Development Management Tables 

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5.2. SUB – AREA DEVELOPMENT MANAGEMENT TABLES 

THESE DEVELOPMNET OBJECTIVES ARE APPLICABLE TO ALL SUB - AREAS 

Soweto Empowerment Zone. 

DEVELOPMENT OBJECTIVE ONE 

The need to create employment opportunities close to Soweto by providing an 

investor friendly environment. Being strategically located on the highway, with 

linkages to the surrounding labour markets of Soweto, Eldorado Park and Lenasia, 

Devland and Baralink form the cornerstone of the Soweto Empowerment Zone. 

INTERVENTIONS 

1.1 Create sustainable employment 

opportunities. 

1.2 Promote safety and security to 

stimulate economic investment. 

Promote Soweto Tourist Route. 

1.3 Stimulate the development of a 

viable local economy in the area. 

1.4 Support the development of a mixed 

use (commerce with associated 

service industry and residential 

GUIDELINES 

• Provide an investor friendly 

environment. 

• Draft a Policy that examines 

effective land release 

mechanisms for economic 

development. 

• Controlled access to Industrial 

Parks and Tourist Heritage sites 

will need to be investigated as 

well as local policing and public 

awareness. 

• Implement Soweto Tourism Trail 

proposals. 

• Apply Nodal Strategy. 

• Secure private land ownership. 

• Encourage the establishment of 

SMME’s by linking onto LED 

inititatives. 

• Establishment of a business 

advice centre. 

• Concentrate non-residential uses 

in and around defined nodes in 

support of higher order economic 

activity. 

• Encourage the establishment of 

public-private partnerships to 

stimulate development. 

• Apply the Nodal Strategy. 


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nodes). 

1.5 Promote infill and densification 

opportunities within the Urban 

Development Boundary. 

• Apply Density Strategy. 

• Consider residential infill 

opportunities within the Regions’ 

identified nodes 

• Apply Urban Development 

Boundary (UDB). 

• Nodal Study. 

1.6 Propcom land sales to be assessed. • JPC to consult more widely and to 

devise policy on land sales. 

• Consultation with and involvement 

of Stakeholders. 

1.7 Promote Home Ownership • Continue with transfer of existing 

public housing stock by means of 

Housing Bureau process and 

resolve problems preventing 

opening of township registers for 

old townships. 


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DEVELOPMENT OBJECTIVE TWO 

Land Use Management 

To formulate a consolidated statutory land-use management system. 

Soweto is administered through various planning legislation that includes the 

Roodepoort Town Planning Scheme (1987), Johannesburg Town Planning Scheme 

(1979) and Annexure F of the repealed Black Communities Development Act (1984). 

No overall town planning scheme currently exists for Soweto. 

INTERVENTIONS 

GUIDELINES 

1.1 Promote consistent development 

management and stable land market. 

1.2 Contain urban sprawl, promote high 

densities and mixed land use, 

integrate public open spaces. 

1.3 Undertake a vacant land assessment, 

with specific reference to the 

development of non-residential land 

uses. 

• Formulate an appropriate 

statutory land –use management 

system. 

• Comply with guidelines of the 

Spatial Development Framework, 

and the GDS. 


Boundary. 

• Appropriate size of land parcels 

for local community facilities. 

• Apply Nodal Strategy 

1.4 Promote land release. • Formulate an appropriate land 

release strategy. 

1.5 Reduce and regulate the 

Informalisation activities. 

1.6 Regulate scrap yards, taverns and 

informal land uses. 

1.7 Curtailment of proliferation of Back 

Yard Shacks. 

1.8 Implement a uniform land-use 

management system, with specific 

reference to: 

• Development in road reserves; 

• Develop Local Economic 

Development Initiatives. 

• Regulate and restrict illegal land 

uses. 

• Enforce respective Council 

Policies. 

• Need to review the effectiveness 

of the policies on scrap yards and 

taverns. 

• Adopt policy mechanisms to 

reduce proliferation of scrap 

yards and taverns. 

• An appropriate Density Strategy 

needs to be prepared and 

adopted. 

• Apply National Building 

Regulations. 

• Top 20 Housing Initiative 

• Develop and complete a land use 

management mechanism. 

• Ensure effective law enforcement. 


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• Legalising existing developments. 

1.9 Promote strong nodal developments 

at identified intersection points. 

1.10 Support the development of an 

appropriate infrastructure 

management plan for public 

investment in conjunction 

with the metro wide infrastructure 

plan. 


• Adequate public transport system 

and facilities to be provided. 

• Ensure consistent service levels 

in the area. Allocation criteria in 

conjunction with community. 

• Control land invasions. 


Boundary. 

• Promote greater access. 

• Improve linkages with other 

settlements and the surrounding 

developed areas. 


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GENERAL ENVIRONMENTAL INTERVENTIONS FOR ALL SUB-AREAS 

DEVELOPMENT 

OBJECTIVE THREE 

To promote sustainable and responsible use of natural resources and protection of environmentally 

sensitive areas to ensure a safe and balanced environment. 

INTERVENTION 

1. Undertake a Strategic Environmental Assessment of 

Administrative Region 6 and 10 to determine assets and 

liabilities, with specific reference to: 

• Implementation of the Johannesburg Metropolitan Open 

Space System. 

• Rivers, streams and wetlands. 

• The Ridge. 

• Protection of sensitive areas such as: 

- Rivers, streams, wetlands and pans 

- Sites within the 1:100 year flood line. (This is not 

considered as a suitable location by the 

Department of Water Affairs and Forestry and 

location alternatives must be considered) 

- Bird Sanctuaries or adjoining properties 

- Proclaimed Nature Reserves, protected natural 

environments or adjoining properties 

- Properties subject to any statutory conservation 

status or similar, including, but not restricted to, 

National Parks, Provincial, Local or Private Nature 

Reserves, Protected Natural Environments, or 

adjoining properties 

- Any area that is of cultural importance, for example, 

historical sites, as proclaimed by the National 

Monuments Act 

- Any Environment Protected Area including zoned 

open spaces or adjoining properties 

- Areas of high ecological, cultural, social or heritage 

environmental importance in Gauteng, as defined 

by this Department [Gauteng Open Space Project 

(GOSP, Phase 2), 2000] 

- Ridges (the term refers to hills, koppies, mountains, 

kloofs, gorges etc.) 

- Dolomitic or undermined areas. 

- Sensitive or major aquifers. 

GUIDELINES 

• Provide for public access. 

• Implement environmental 

management. 

• Pro-actively demarcate and 

secure open spaces. 

• Apply EMF/IEMP and 

JMOSS. 

• Stormwater management. 

• Solid waste management (semi-rural areas). 

• Earmark open space for regional and local public use. 

• Eco-tourism potential of the Vista koppies. 

• Catchment Management. 


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2. Development in Watercourses • A buffer with a minimum of 

32 meters each side of the 

water course edge (or 

greater as is necessary to 

maintain ecological 

functioning) shall be 

provided adjacent to all 

wetlands and water courses. 

• The 1:100 year floodline 

should be respected at all 

times. 

3. Development in Ridges • Development in ridges 

should not be allowed and if 

allowed should be subject to 

conditions i.e. An 

environmental impact study 

should be conducted, and a 

200 meter buffer should be 

left between the foot of the 

ridge and the development. 


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SUB - AREA ONE 

BARALINK, POWER PARK, POWER PARK EXT 2. 

To enhance the integration of Soweto and Johannesburg CBD as well as to improve 

access to employment opportunities. 

Key issues include the following: 

• High Densities in Elias Motsoaledi 

• Large tracts of vacant land in and around Baralink; 

• Environmentally sensitive areas around the Klipspruit and Orlando Dam; 

• Traffic congestion around Baragwanath Taxi Rank; 

Key structuring elements include: 

• Old Potchesfstroom Road; 

• Chris Hani Hospital 

• Lack of access to the N1 highway; 

• Goudkoppies land fill site and the need to expand Devland Industrial Park; 

• Golden Highway linkage to the south; 

• Orlando Dam and Power Station. 

Proposed Projects: 

• Upgrading of the Baragwanath Taxi Rank; 

• Linkages to Ben Naude/ Sofasonke Road and Old Potchestroom Road; 

• Access to the N1 Highway; 

• Development of Baralink Precinct including Elias Motsoaledi Informal 

Settlement 

• Katavi Housing Development. 

• Development of Orlando Ekhaya Precinct (co-ordinated by Johannesburg 

Property Company) 


To integrate Soweto with the City by promoting commercial and retail development 

along Old Potchefstroom Road and within the adjacent Nasrec area. Improved 

accessibility to the N1 must be expedited. 


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INTERVENTIONS 

1.1 Enhance the integration of Soweto 

and Johannesburg CBD. 

1.2 Improve access to employment 

opportunities. 

1.3 Promote the development of mixeduse 

precincts. 

1.4 The provision of modal interchanges 

and/or taxi stops facilities. 

1.5 Promote the optimal use of existing 

land uses. 

1.6 Support business, institutional uses 

and high density residential. 

1.7 Provide or facilitate the provision of a 

diversity of social and community 

services. 

1.8 Prioritise and encourage the 

development of under-utilized land 

within the area. 

1.9 Formalisation/upgrading of Elias 

Motsoaledi Informal Settlement 

GUIDELINES 

• Implement the Baralink 

Development Framework. 

• Co-ordinated development through 

the Baralink Coordination 

Committee. 

• Identify quick win projects to 

stimulate development. 

• Implement key linkages as 

identified in the RSDF. 

• Apply Movement Strategy. 


• Guided by the infrastructure 

capacities. 


• Apply the Baralink Development 

Framework. 

• Permissible uses to compliment 

Regional character. 

• Apply Density Strategy. 

• Guided by infrastructure 

capacities. 


• Clustering of services (One stopservice) 

• Establish public-private 

partnership. 

• Coordination between all spheres 

of Government. 

• Apply service provision standards. 

• Identify key linkages. 

• Improve linkages. 

• Enforce by-laws. 

• Ensure that the future urban 

development is not isolated from 

the rest of the residential 

developments. 

• Investigate upgrade at a higher 

density than normally implemented 


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SUB - AREA TWO 

NOORDGESIG, NOORDGESIG EXT 1, ORLANDO, ORLANDO EAST, ORLANDO 

WEST EXT 1, ORLANDO WEST EXT 2, ORLANDO WEST EXT 5, DIEPKLOOF 

ZONE 1, DIEPKLOOF ZONE 2, DIEPKLOOF ZONE 3, DIEPKLOOF ZONE 4, 

DIEPKLOOF ZONE 5, DIEPKLOOF ZONE 6, DIEPKLOOF EXT 1, DIEPKLOOF 

EXT 2, DIEPKLOOF EXT 3, DIEPKLOOF EXT 10, POWER PARK EXT 3 

The aim of this sub-area is to consolidate and upgrade the existing infrastructure in 

the area. The consolidation of the Baralink Precinct is of paramount importance. 


• High densities in Orlando East; 

• Congestion along Mooki Road and at Baragwanath/ Chris Hani Hospital; 

• 


• River and open space along Bailey Spruit; 

• Major road network – N1 in East, Old Potchefstroom Road, Soweto Highway 

and Ben Naude/ Sofasonke Road; 


• Baralink Precinct (Precinct Nine); 

• Diepkloof Hostel conversion; 

• Environmental quality upgrade along Klipspruit; 

• Northern Ramps on and off the N1; 

• Orlando Top Twenty Urban Regeneration Project (addressing backyard 

dwellings and social facilities) 


To expedite service delivery and manage the Baralink Development Framework. 

Develop appropriate tourism facilities along Vilakazi Street. 

INTERVENTIONS 

GUIDELINES 

1.1 Support the development of a mix of 

compatible land uses but to be 

confined along major nodes – Bara, 

Orlando, Diepkloof. 

• Optimal use of existing 

infrastructure. 

• Support mixed small scale 

service industry activities along 

Old Potch Rd. 

• Law enforcement on informal 

economic activities. 

• Revitalization and renewal 

through economic development. 

1.2 Upgrade the public environment and • Undertake Precinct Plan. 


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promote secure tourism industry. • Apply Soweto Tourism Strategy 

and the Cities Tourism Strategy. 

• Close Vilakazi Street. 

1.4 Support commercial, business and 

related developments. 

1.5 Improve and retain all residential 

amenity by allowing business 

development in demarcated areas. 

Upgrade backyard dwellings 

1.6 Support the formulation of a focused 

economic development strategy. 

1.7 Promote the Mobility Function by 

limiting mixed uses along major 

roads. 

• Promote job creation. 

• Support training and skills 

development programmes. 


• Apply Baralink Development 

Framework. 

• Develop housing subsidy 

procedures and guidelines 

• Encourage appropriate affordable 

rental housing market 

• Promote SMME’s. 

• Establish and support publicprivate 

partnerships. 

• Support the establishment of 

local business forums. 

• Major roads include Immink, Ben 

Naude, Sofasonke, Marthinus 

Smuts and Eben Cyler. 

• Apply Movement Strategy 


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To ensure that any prospecting and mining operations contribute to the economic 

growth of the metropolitan area and have a minimal impact on the surrounding 

development and the environments 

INTERVENTIONS 

GUIDELINES 

1. Monitoring, management and strict 

adherence to national legislation 

governing quarries and other mining 

operations. 

Refer to the approved Environmental 

Management Plan (EMP) as required in 

terms of the Mineral and Petroleum 

Resources Development Act (Act 28 of 2002) 

2. Any development taking place in the 

vicinity of any mining or quarry 

operations is to comply with the approved 

EMP for the operation and take 

cognisance of the mining operation plan 

as contained in the EMP and the 

associated mitigation and management 

measures. 

3. The erection or construction of any 

buildings, roads, railways, or any 

structure within a horizontal distance of 

100 metres from the workings of the mine 

or quarry shall comply with all the 

requirements and obligations of the Mine 

Health and Safety Act (Act 29 of 1996) 

and the associated Mine Health and 

Safety regulations. 


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SUB - AREA THREE 

DOBSONVILLE, DOBSONVILLE EXT 1, DOBSONVILLE EXT 2, DOBSONVILLE 

EXT 3, DOBSONVILLE EXT 4, DOBSONVILLE EXT 5, MEADOWLANDS, 

MEADOWLANDS EXT 11, MEADOWLANDS EXT 12, MEADOWLANDS WEST 

ZONE 6, MEADOWLANDS WEST ZONE 7, MEADOWLANDS WEST ZONE 8, 

MEADOWLANDS WEST ZONE 9, MEADOWLANDS WEST ZONE 10, 

MEADOWLANDS EASTZONE 1, MEADOWLANDS EASTZONE 2, 

MEADOWLANDS EASTZONE 3, MEADOWLANDS EASTZONE 4, 

MEADOWLANDS EASTZONE 5, MMESI PARK. 

The consolidation of land uses to improve the functionality of the node and to create 

employment opportunities by the upgrading of public facilities and the improvement 

of traffic management. 

Key issues include: 

• Unemployment (67%) is one of the highest in Soweto and much higher than 

the Soweto average (45%). 

• Low income levels 

• Mine dust pollution is the worst in Johannesburg and a major community and 

health issue. 

• Poor north-south linkages, particularly to new settlements at Doornkop and 

Thulani (outside UDB). 

• Further north-south severance potential due to proposed roads (K102 and 

N17) and rail (Naledi – New Canada). 

• Large number of hostels. 

• Nodal potential: Dobsonville node, Dube-Phefeni axis, Heckroodt Circle. 

• High crime (Dobsonville in particular, experiences some of the worst crime in 

Soweto). 

• Water supply problems, particularly in Meadowlands. 

• Ambulances supplied from distant Randburg 

• Few parks and community open spaces 

• Approximately 75 hectares of vacant land. 


• Dobsonville Koppies: Any approved development should be in line with the 

Catchment Management policies, buffer zone requirements and any other 

applicable legislation 

• Major north-south roads (Roodepoort Road) and east west linkages (Soweto 

Highway, Ben Naude/Sofasonke Road). 

• Proposed road reserves: N17 and K102 

• Proposed rail reserves: (Naledi-New Canada). 

• Klipspruit Valley open space 

• Nodes: Dobsonville, Dube and Heckroodt Circle. 

• River and open space along Bailey Spruit 


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• Major roads: N1 in east, Old Potchefstroom. Soweto Highway, Ben 

Naude/Sofasonke Road 

• Railway line a barrier within the community. 


• Cultural and Heritage route projects; 

• Precinct Plans for Dube, Phefeni and Dobsonville; 

• Environmental assessment and action plan for reducing mining dust. 


To strengthen the existing nodes by integrating the existing land uses. 

INTERVENTIONS 

1.1 Support the Dobsonville 

Neighbourhood Node. 

1.2 Stimulate the development of the 

local economy in the area. 

1.3 Prioritise and encourage the 

Development of underutilised land 

within the area. 

1.4 Some Extensions and Zones have 

no conditions of establishment. 

GUIDELINES 

• Ensure adequate service levels. 


• Strengthen the area by: 

o Allowing business 

development. 

o Allowing limited amount of 

residential development on 

vacant land. 

o Allow businesses that provide 

a neighbourhood service 

• Put in place an effective land 

release mechanism. 

• Make land available to privately 

interested parties. 

• Promote infill and the productive 

use of vacant land. 


• Apply Mobility Strategy/ Restrict 

development along Mobility roads 

• Request deeds office to expedite 

the allocation of new numbering 

system. 


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To ensure that any prospecting and mining operations contribute to the economic 

growth of the metropolitan area and have a minimal impact on the surrounding 

development and the environments 

INTERVENTIONS 

GUIDELINES 

1. Monitoring, management and strict 

adherence to national legislation 

governing quarries and other mining 

operations. 

Refer to the approved Environmental 

Management Plan (EMP) as required in 

terms of the Mineral and Petroleum 

Resources Development Act (Act 28 of 2002) 

2. Any development taking place in the 

vicinity of any mining or quarry 

operations is to comply with the 

approved EMP for the operation and 

take cognisance of the mining 

operation plan as contained in the 

EMP and the associated mitigation 

and management measures. 

3. The erection or construction of any 

buildings, roads, railways, or any 

structure within a horizontal distance 

of 100 metres from the workings of 

the mine or quarry shall comply with 

all the requirements and obligations 

of the Mine Health and Safety Act 

(Act 29 of 1996) and the associated 

Mine Health and Safety regulations. 


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SUB-AREA FOUR 

MOFOLO NORTH, MOFOLO CENTRAL, MOFOLO SOUTH, MOLAPO, JABAVU, 

JABAVU EXT 1, MOROKA, MOROKA NORTH, DUBE. 

To improve the functionality and accessibility of the node by integrating the intermodal 

facility within the existing urban fabric. 


To revitalize and upgrade the public environment. 


• Poverty and high unemployment 

• Pollution of Klipspruit, illegal dumping, poor waste management and low 

environmental awareness 

• Large open spaces/undeveloped sites 

• Concrete ‘Elephant Houses’ at Jabavu 

• Mshenguville informal settlement on problematic ground conditions 

• Lack of public transport facilities 


• Existing major nodes of Ikwezi and Crossroads and smaller developing nodes 

on Mlageni and Kinini Roads 

• Major road network (Koma Road, Phake Road) 

• Mofolo-Moroka Valley, part of the ‘Green Heart’ of Soweto 

• Railway line acts as a barrier to north-west (Jabulani) 

• Extensive vacant land (e.g. Jabavu stadium site) 

• Regional sports facilities at Moroka and Jabavu 


• Development of Ikwezi Node; 

• Upgrading of the Cross-roads node; 

• Development of the Regina Mundi Park of Remembrance; 

• Development of the Oppenheimer Park; 

• Mofolo-Moroka Open Space Network; 

• Development of the Klipspruit Park; 

• Ikwezi Taxi rank; 


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