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SRK Consulting in association with BKS Pixley Ka Seme Local Municipality EMF – Draft Status Quo Report Page 41 includes an SDF. The main focus of the IDP as the master plan of a municipality, is to direct and prioritise municipal activities, ensuring that co-operative governance and sound municipal management is promoted and to maximize community and stakeholder participation on issues affecting community development and service delivery. The content of this spatial framework is further spelled out in the Local Government: Municipal Planning and Performance Management Regulations, 2001 (Government Notice 22605, 24 August 2001), which state that an SDF in a municipality's IDP must: • Give effect to the Chapter 1 principles of the DFA; • Ensure the sustainable use of land and other resources; • Ensure the channelling of resources to areas displaying both economic potential and development need; • Functionally link the main growth centres / areas of greatest economic activity; • Unlock the development potential of existing towns; and • Mitigate existing and potential future land use conflict(s) between urban development, mining / industry, agriculture, forestry and tourism. • Set out objectives that reflect the desired spatial form of the municipality; • Contain strategies and policies regarding the manner in which to achieve the objectives; • Set out basic guidelines for a land use management system; • Contain a strategic assessment of the environmental impact of the SDF; • Identify programmes and projects for the development of land within the municipality; and • Provide a visual representation of the desired spatial form of the municipality, including identification of where public and private land development and infrastructure investment should take place. Gert Sibande District Municipality Spatial planning in the district is guided by GSDM SDF (2009) which forms part of the Revised IDP (2008/09). The SDF responds to new policy directives presented by documents such as the NSDP, the Mpumalanga PGDS, the National Integrated Sustainable Rural Development Strategy, and the Mpumalanga Rural Development Programme. In essence, the GSDF SDF strives to: • Create a more consolidated settlement structure, so as to allow for the cost-effective and sustainable provision of modern-day engineering and community services and infrastructure; While acknowledging the need to balance economic growth with environmental conservation the GSDM SDF does not provide a clear land use strategy for the district, i.e. a strategy to balance these two opposing land use demands. This is acknowledged in the GSDM IDP where it states that, “the current economic development strategies and planning are not aligned to the SDF plan.” This situation is compounded by the “challenge of uncoordinated planning between the department of local government and the local municipalities” (GSDM, 2007). Furthermore, the IDP goes on to state that: “Most of the current plans in the municipalities are reactive to development proposals. They lack integrated planning alignment to the conditions and advantages of spatial location and local economic conditions and advantages”. In term of actual land use management, it appears from data in the GSDM IDP that there are as yet no consolidated land use schemes in place within the local municipalities. Future spatial and land use plans applicable to the PKSLM area include (GSDM 2009): • Establishment of two mobility corridors N11 and R23 as strategic roads; • Establishment of an ecological corridor from Wakkerstroom arching around the eastern portion of the municipality to the Vaal River conservation areas in the north; • Establishment of a hierarchy of settlements for service provision, with Volksrust being a 2nd Order service centre; and KILI/BEAT G:\404946_PIXLEY EMF\7REPORTS\Status Quo report\Draft report\Draft status quo report, July 2010.docx July 2010
SRK Consulting in association with BKS Pixley Ka Seme Local Municipality EMF – Draft Status Quo Report Page 42 • The demarcation of the eastern portion of the municipality as a service upgrading priority area, including the settlements of Wakkerstroom and Daggakraal. Pixley Ka Seme Local Municipality The PKSLM IDP (2009-2012) aims for “comprehensive integrated planning and economic development”. According to the IDP, the municipality will focus on addressing the community needs, improve service deliver and creating jobs, meeting the millennium goals, improving communication and community participation. Strategies developed to give effect to the IDP intend to, amongst others: • “Move faster and further in providing the better life for all; • Halve unemployment and poverty by 2014; • Provide the skills required by the district for economic development and growth; • Working with our National and Provincial Governments to improve service delivery and access to basic services; • Ensure participation of the people to allow citizens to identify the problems that their community face and partner in providing solutions to deal with these problems and improve public service; • Speed up the delivery of free basic services; • Build sustainable human settlements and viable communities; • Provide infrastructure that will create an environment that is conducive to economic growth and development that facilitate and increase capacity to provide basic services, which will contribute to a safe and healthy environment; and • Create job opportunities and fight poverty through infrastructure development and service delivery, procurement and support for SMME’s and Broad Based Black Economic Development.” community participation, trained and motivated staff, rapid economic development and a tourism friendly environment”. 3.5 Socio-economic The Socio-economic specialist report for the PKSLM (BKS, 2010) provides an overview of the study area, key aspects of which are summarized below. Statistics in this report were primarily taken from the StatsSA Community Survey conducted in 2007. It needs to be highlighted that population figures in the various reports studied varied greatly from a net decrease in population to a net increase in population. For consistency purposes, the Stats SA Community Survey (CS) data (Stats SA, 2007) covers all statistics required for this study, therefore was used throughout the report. With all statistical data there is a level of uncertainty and unlike the other available datasets the StatsSA (2007) CS data has documented possible irregularities and inconsistencies which have been summarised in the Socio-economic specialist report (Van Niekerk et al., 2010). 3.5.1 Population size and distribution The Province is home to approximately 3.1 million people (see Table 3-11). This figure translates to a 10.3% increase from approximately 2.8 million people in 1996. The current situation, according to Stats SA (2007), estimates the population to be at 3.6 million people (see Table 3-12). This translates to a 16.6% increase from 2001, approximately 3.3% per year over a period of five years. Table 3-11: Population size and growth Census 2001 CS 2007 % Increase/ decrease % GSDM population (2007) MP 3,122,990 3,643,435 16.6 100.0 GS DM 900,011 890,700 -1.0 24.4 PKSLM 80,737 65,932 -18.3 18.0 Source: StatsSA, (2001 & 2007) • The PKSLM SDF 2009 which provides for the spatial context for the IDP, aims for “cost effective and efficient service delivery which must be underpinned by good planning and a proper integrated plan … achieved through KILI/BEAT G:\404946_PIXLEY EMF\7REPORTS\Status Quo report\Draft report\Draft status quo report, July 2010.docx July 2010
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