The IDP process identifies development priorities, optimal organizational structures and reallocation of resources to where they are most needed. The IDP processes and procedures derived from the Systems Act are legally binding, as are its outputs, and remain in force for five years after adoption and are reviewed annually. The IDP process, as set out in the legislation, also requires the municipality to prepare a spatial development framework (SDF) based on the policy and strategic framework, which provides a spatial vehicle for indicating the location of priority development areas and an implementation framework.
As such, the IDP process is continuous and iterative (i.e. going back to reconsider what has been done in the light of changing circumstances and the key performance management indicators), moving from planning to prioritizing and improving service delivery, integrating planning and implementation and monitoring the IDP programs and expenditure in the form of a Performance Management System (PMS). It seeks to meet the needs of the local communities on a departmental basis, an intensive departmental-based process that has been followed as described in the process plan and recorded in the needs and problem analysis and critical priorities in Chapter 6. What is also important is that the municipality's scarce resources must be aligned with the identified development priorities and distributed in relation to the community's priorities.
It makes it possible to link the budget inextricably to the IOP, as required by the System Act. The IDP provides strategic management based on a budget driven by the IDP's key development priorities. This ensures that the changes resulting from the IOP are desirable, are in the interest of the municipality and ensure positive growth and respond to the desired future, identified vision and goal.
Ward Community meetings were held in December 2006 where the agenda included a discussion of the payment of services and rates (in terms of the Property Rates Act), an introduction to the IDP, and the identification of needs and issues.
II EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
- OVERVIEW OF MTUBATUBA’S SETTLEMENT AND DEVELOPMENTAL PAST
- MTUBATUBA MUNICIPAL AREA AFTER DEMARCATION AND ESTABLISHMENT OF THE LOCAL MUNICIPALITY
- CURRENT DOMINANT ISSUES AND DEVELOPMENTAL CONSTRAINTS
- MTUBATUBA’S OPPORTUNITIES, IMPROVEMENT CAPABILITY AND DEVELOPMENTAL STRENGTHS
From the Umfolozi floodplain in the south to, even, parts of the declared World Heritage Site. The settlement design was undertaken by the Survey Section of the then Department of Works of the former KwaZulu Government. Over time, and with the first heavy rains, the natural water table (which had previously been contained by the gum trees) rose and parts of the Khula Village layout were submerged.
The forest was declared a Greater St Lucia World Heritage Site and this was a natural progression in the attempt to manage the communities and their settlement needs in line with the need to conserve and restore a rare environmental resource – the precious and irreplaceable coastal forest. The layout of the village, which this community named Ezwenelisha, was designed, a housing project was established with a grant from the Ministry of Housing, and the process of resettlement began. Roads and other service infrastructure were built in the first two phases of the resettlement project, a water reservoir was financed and built by the Umkhanyakude District within the village, and 440 houses were built.
On the one hand, recognition of the irreplaceability of the forest, and on the other, the necessity of providing services to the community, which is its constitutional and developmental task. In 2003, the Demarcation Committee re-demarcated part of the Dukuduku settlement area into a District Management Area (DMA) overlaid with the boundaries of the now iSimangaliso Wetland Park (Park) World Heritage Declaration, but no. This functionally meant that a significant proportion of the Dukuduku community is not part of the Mtubatuba Municipality which falls under the jurisdiction of the Umkhanyakude District Municipality.
Critical water shortages are stifling growth and economic development throughout the municipality's area, where, for example, at the peak of the tourist season, the water dries up, resulting in everyone leaving and leaving behind a less prosperous municipality because of it. The District Municipality also has the legal responsibility for the provision, maintenance, improvement and expansion of the sewage disposal infrastructure of the Mtubatuba Municipality. All these are issues that have long been identified and repeated in the preparation and revision of the IDP from year to year.
The Urban Edge is described and illustrated in Plans 15A, 15B and 15C of the Spatial Development Framework. The development parameters of the Urban Edge are also set out in the Mtubatuba Land Use Scheme. Throughout this process of growth and stabilization, Mtubatuba's communities will be consulted on what their expectations are from the Municipality in order to create a win-win situation.
III COMMUNICATION AND PARTICIPATION PLAN
INSTITUTIONAL ARRANGEMENTS
ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
Consequently, the Council must approve the Process Plan, which then becomes the statutory content and time frame document for finalizing and approving the IDP during each IDP year. The Council should also adopt the Terms of Reference of the RF as it should of the Ward Committees. National and provincial departments forward their budgets to the municipality, to ensure that municipal needs are addressed each year and that budgets are harmonized.
According to the general communication structure of the municipality, their task is to obtain contributions from residents, discuss issues and forward them to the municipal council through the chairman of the district committee, who is also a councillor. The position of the members of the departmental committee is reflected in the organizational and participation structure of the IDP shown in APPENDIX A.
THE MECHANISMS FOR PUBLIC PARTICIPATION AND ALIGNMENT BETWEEN THE THREE SPHERES OF GOVERNANCE (SEE ANNEX A)
MTUBATUBA MUNICIPALITY
INTEGRATED DEVELOPMENT PLAN (IDP)
IDP ORGANISATIONAL AND PARTICIPATION STRUCTURE
- NEEDS AND ISSUES IDENTIFIED BY THE WARD COMMUNITIES (2006- 2007) AND UPDATED DURING OCTOBER-DECEMBER 2008
- MUNICIPAL ADMINISTRATION: ISSUES IDENTIFICATION: 2006-2011
- WARD 1: KWAMSANE TOWN: ISSUES IDENTIFICATION
- WARD 3: INDLOVU: ISSUES IDENTIFICATION
- WARD 3: KHULA VILLAGE: ISSUES IDENTIFICATION
- WARD 4: DUKUDUKU FOREST SETTLEMENT: ISSUES IDENTIFICATION
- WARD 4: EZWENELISHA: ISSUES IDENTIFICATION
- WARD 4: MONZI: ISSUES IDENTIFICATION
- WARD 5: MTUBATUBA-RIVERVIEW: ISSUES IDENTIFICATION
- WARD 5: NORDALE: ISSUES IDENTIFICATION
10 Ensure the joint development of the remainder of Erf 321 in St. Lucia, owned by the municipality. Because a good water supply has been lacking for so long, it has been agreed that attention to this is FIRST PRIORITY. 15 Provision of a secondary school on the designated area in the village of Indlovu for Ward 2 and Ward 3 (Indlovu Village).
22 Attention was drawn to the block-making activity set up between Wards 1 and 2 on Ward 2 land, where the business contributes nothing to the betterment of the Ward 2 community (the Chairperson suggested that these were not IDPs and the community should discuss after the meeting). 5 Continuous identification of problems without action 6 Overcrowded schools and free education for orphans 7 Provision of community hall. 9 Development of local opportunities LED 10 Supply of houses with electricity and water 11 No toilets.
Need for community workshops on the pros and cons of individual titles as many people have biased views. Creation of horticultural, poultry and sewing group cooperatives and financing. Provision of project installments 9 Retirement payment point with lodging and facilities 10 Development of a sports field.
ESKOM has not reacted and this has led to a stalemate, to the detriment of the electricity supply in the area of the Municipality. 8 The need to respect the provisions of the urban planning scheme, the expressed concern about "gatherings" in public parking lots. 10 Controlled use of fireworks, possibly a total ban due to the negative impact on wildlife and the image of the city within a natural area (attention was drawn to the fact that, if implemented, this would probably put an end to the annual New Year's street party that has become a characteristic of the city).
2 Water cannot be accessed from the reservoir in Ezwenelisha as a result of the bulk water line being vandalized. 4 The supply of electricity to Monzi is insufficient and the upgrading of the line from Mtubatuba to St. Lucia has been delayed. 5 The lack of land claim resolution and security of land ownership in Ezwenelisha and Dukuduku has a negative impact on the future development potential of Monzi and land values.
9 Progress on provision of 24 hour Community Health Care Center – urgent 10 Improvement of Library building, provision of internet facilities. Concern was expressed as to where the students would go at the end of the year in grades that are not yet available.
