Tracing a decade of drafting, reviewing and assessing integrated development plans in KwaZulu-Natal: some key reflections
Abstract
English: The next decade of planning in South African municipalities under democracy has
dawned. The previous decade was characterised by drafting, reviewing and assessing
outcomes of Integrated Development Plans (IDPs). Through the Local Government
Municipal Systems Act, 32 of 2000 and Sections 152/3 of the South African Constitution,
1996, local government is responsible for development processes and municipal
planning. It requires from municipalities to formulate and review IDPs. Two “generations”
of IDPs were drafted and reviewed from 2001 to 2011 by KwaZulu-Natal municipalities.
The Department of Co-operative Governance and Traditional Affairs (COGTA) and
its predecessors evaluated and measured legal compliance of drafting, approval
and submission processes. Identification of factors critical to planning, observations
and recommendations for IDPs are captured in this article. Direction, formulation and
evaluation of third-generation IDPs for periods 2012/13 to 2016/17 municipal financial
years is a focus of this article. The article also examines compliance, by focusing on
quality and improvement of IDPs. Afrikaans: Die tweede dekade van beplanning vir Suid-Afrika se munisipaliteite onder demokrasie
het aangebreek. Die vorige dekade is deur die formulering, hersiening en evaluering
van die uitkomste van Geïntegreerde Ontwikkelingsplanne (GOPe) gekenmerk.
Ooreenkomstig die Plaaslike Regering: Munisipale Stelsels Wet, Wet No. 32 van 2000,
en artikels 152/3 van die Grondwet van Suid-Afrika, 1996, is plaaslike regering vir
ontwikkelingsprosesse en munisipale beplanning verantwoordelik. Dit word dus van
munisipaliteite verwag om GOPe op te stel en te hersien. Vanaf 2001 tot en met 2011
is twee “generasies” GOPe deur die munisipaliteite van KwaZulu-Natal opgestel en
hersien. Die Department van Samewerkende Regering en Tradisionele Sake (DSRTS)
en sy voorgangers het planne geëvalueer en gekyk of dit aan die wetlike vereistes vir
opstel, goedkeuring en indiening voldoen. Faktore van deurslaggewende belang vir
beplanning, waarneming en aanbevelings vir GOPe word in die artikel beskryf. Daar
word op die beleidsrigting, opstel en evaluering van die derde generasie GOpe vir die
tydperk van munisipale finansiële jare vanaf 2012/13 tot 2016/17 gefokus. Die artikel
ondersoek die nakoming van faktore soos kwaliteit en verbetering van die GOPe. SeSotho: Iminyaka elishumi ezayo komomasipala Eningizimu Afrika esizweni sonkana
ngaphansi kwentando yeningi isifikile. Iminyaka elishumi eyedlule beyiphathelene
nokulotshwa, ukubuyekezwa kanye nokuhlolwa kwemiphumela yoHlelo Lwentuthuko
oludidiyelwe ngokomthetho: iMunicipal Systems Act, uMthetho nombolo 32 kanyaka
u2000, kanye nengxenye yekhulu namashumi amahlanu nambili kuya engxenyeni
yekhulu namashumi amahlanu nantathu oMthetho weNingizimu Afrika iConstitution eyabhalwa ngo-1996, ohulumeni basekhaya
begunywazwe ekuthuthukiseni nasekuhleleni
komasipala. Kuligunya lomasipala ukusungula
kanye nokubuyekezwa koHlelo Lwentuthuko
oludidiyelwe. Ukudidiyelwa kabili kwaloluHlelo
Lwentuthuko okudidiyelwe kwalotshwa,
kwabuyekezwa, kusuka ngonyaka ka-2001 kuya
enyakeni ka-2011, ngomasipala besifundazwe
saKwaZulu-Natali. Umnyango wakwa-Cogta
namalunga awo amakhulu babekene
ngokuhlola baphinde babalula nokuvumelana
nomthetho kokulotshwa kwezinHlelo
Zentuthuko. Lombhalo ubuka ukudalulwa
kwamaphuzu abalulekile ekuhlelweni
nasekubhekisisweni kanye nasekunconyweni
kwezinHlelo Zentuthuko. Uphinde ubuke udlela,
ukulotshwa kanye nokuhlolwa kokudidiyelwa
kwesithathu kwezinHlelo Zentuthuko
oludidiyelwe lweminyaka yezimali yomasipala
ka-2012/13 kuya ku-2016/17. Leliphepha libuye
libhekisise nokuvumelana nenhloso noma
nenjongo kwizinga kanye nasekuthuthukeni
kwezinHlelo Zentuthuko oludidiyelwe.