National planning in South Africa: a temporal perspective

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Date
2013
Authors
Drewes, Ernst
Van Aswegen, Mariske
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Department of Urban and Regional Planning, University of the Free State
Abstract
English: This article aims to provide a temporal and critical perspective on national spatial planning since the 1970s until the most recent directive in 2012. From the first spatial policy initiative, the National Physical Development Plan (1975), radical changes have occurred in the various approaches to national planning. The most recent spatial planning directive in South Africa is the National Development Plan (2012), which has a diversified approach with political, social and economic goals. In the past four decades, national planning policy and directives have moved through balanced and unbalanced regional growth approaches. The top-down approach of the 1970s with rigid area-specific directives transformed into a bottom-up more adaptable, socially oriented and interpretation-based approach in recent years. In the process, South Africa’s spatial policy has evolved from a policy dominated by political objectives in the 1960s to a multi-sectoral policy which purports to be based only on economic principles of a multi-sectoral free-market system; from one of strong government intervention to one of minor intervention. The general perception of this article is that only some of these policies are substantially attributed to effective socio-economic development due to the lack of spatially focused initiatives.
Afrikaans: Hierdie artikel het ten doel om ‘n chronologiese en kritiese perspektief te bied op nasionale ruimtelike beplanning vanaf die 1970’s tot die mees onlangse riglyn in 2012. Sedert die eerste ruimtelike beleidsinisiatief, die Nasionale Fisiese Ontwikkelingsplan (1975), het radikale veranderinge in die benadering tot nasionale beplanning plaasgevind. Die mees onlangse beplanningsdirektief in Suid-Afrika is die Nasionale Ontwikkelingsplan (2012), wat ʼn gediversifiseerde benadering tot politieke, sosiale en ekonomiese doelwitte bied. Sedert 1975 het nasionale beplanningsbeleid en voorskrifte deur fases van gebalanseerde èn ongebalanseerde benaderings tot streeksgroei beweeg. In die proses is ʼn outokratiese benadering met rigiede areaspesifieke riglyne stelselmatig omskep in ‘n meer aanpasbare, sosiaal-georiënteerde en interpretasie-gebaseerde benadering in onlangse jare. Suid-Afrika se ruimtelike beplanning het ontwikkel van ‘n beleid wat oorheers is deur politieke doelwitte in die 1960’s na een wat volgens aanspraak geskoei is suiwer op die ekonomiese beginsels van ‘n multisektorale vryemarkstelsel; van ʼn beleid van sterk staatsingryping tot een van mindere staatsingryping. Hierdie artikel het ten doel om ‘n kritiese en temporale perspektief te bied op nasionale ruimtelike beplanning vanaf die 1970’s tot die mees onlangse riglyn in 2011. Die algemene persepsie van die artikel is dat nie een van hierdie beleide noemenswaardig bygedra het tot waarneembare en maksimum sosio-ekonomiese ontwikkeling nie as gevolg van die tekort aan ruimtelik gefokusde inisiatiewe.
SeSotho: Serapa sena se bua ka Ditlhahiso mabapi le nako mmoho le dithlahiso tsa diphoso tabeng ya merero ya dibaka ka hara naha ho tloha dilemong tsa 1970 ho fihla selemong sa 2012. Ho tloha sepheo sa pele sa merero ea dibaka se tsebahalang ka lebitso la National Physical Development Plan se theoeng ka 1975, diphetoho tse ngata mabapi le merero ea dipaka ka hare ho naha di etsahetse. Morero wa dibaka ka hara naha ea Afrika Borwa o theoeng haufinyane ke National Development Plan e theoeng ka 2012. Morero ona o akaralleditse le ho ntlafatsa dikarolo tsa dipolitiki, meruo, le maphelo a batho ka hare ho ona. Ka hare ho dilemo tse ka etsang mashome a mane, dipheo tsa merero ya dibaka ka hara naha di tsamaile hara mereo e sa lekaneng ntlheng ya ho hola hoa ditereke. Morero wa ho tloha hodimo ho ya tlase (top –down) wa nako tsa 1970 o nang le sepheo se tsitsitseng sa dibaka tse khethehileng se fetohile ho ba morero oo tlohang ka tlase ho ya hodimo (bottom-up), oo khonang ho amohela dintho tse ncha, oo khonang ho kenyelletsa batho hape oo khonang ho utloisiseha ha bonolo ha dilemo di ntse di tsamaea. Ha ho ntso etsahala joalo, sepheo sa merero ya dibaka, Afrika Borwa se tlohetse ho ba sepheo se tamaisoang ke dipolotiki joalo ka nakong tsa 1960. se fetohetse ho ba sepheo se nang le dikarolo tse ngata, se nang le moelelo wa ho tsamaisoa ke taba tsa moruo, ntlheng ya dikarolo tse mmaloa ka hara maraka oo ipusang. Maraka o sa sitisoeng ke mmuso. Akaraletso ya chebahalo ya serapa sena ke hore dipheo di mmaloa tse ntlafaditseng tswedisopele ya batho le moruo ka lebaka la hore dipheo tse ding ha di na chebisiso ya merero ya dibaka.
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Spatial planning, National planning, National Physcial Development Plan, National Development Plan, South African planning policy, Socio-economic development
Citation
Drewes, E., & Van Aswegen, M. (2013). National planning in South Africa: A temporal perspective. Town and Regional Planning, 62(1), 21-28.