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SAPI NewsletterNORTHERN CAPE
SAPI Northern Cape| www.sapi.org.za
To enhance the art and science
of sustainable local, regional and
national human and physical development
planning, and the theory and practice
relating thereto.
- within the Northern Cape.
A WORD ON SPLUMA
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NEWS VOL 1/2015September 2015
In this issueA Word on SPLUMA
•Overview of SAPI Northern Cape
•Upcoming Events•New Members•SAPI Shirt Proposal•Urban Quote•Did you know?•A Must Read Book•Know your Committee Member•The new stepSA website•NC Pioneers regional moddelling innovation•Mentorship Programme•SAPI NC Social Photo's
The Spatial Planning and Land Use
Management Act was finally assented to
by the president on 05 August 2013, and
came into force on 01 July 2015.
Whilst numerous laws have been
passed since the advent of democracy,
SPLUMA is certainly the most significant
(after the 1996 Constitution) for the
planning profession, and by extension,
the country at large. For the first time
since the dawn of democracy, we are
able to say we have overarching
legislation which seeks to effectively
deal with the future development of our
country. Consecutive regimes from
colonisation, slavery and apartheid
contributed tremendously to the
distorted settlement patterns in our
country. Whilst ideologically we can
claim to be living in a free society, the
truth of the matter is the scars of
segregated development are there for
all to see.
Through SPLUMA, we finally have a
uniform tool that seeks, amongst
others, to redress past spatial
imbalances. The Planners of this
generation can stand tall, for they have
actively contributed to the shaping of a
future South Africa. This, in fact, is one
of the key reasons of the existence of
SAPI, being “…to initiate and promote
reforms in the laws, policies and
programmes relating to planning in South
Africa.”
The advent of democracy saw changes
in governance in the country, from the
hierarchy based three levels of government to the three spheres of government. Whilst this has been the case since ‘94, the principle of cooperative governance is not any more amplified as it is in SLPUMA.
Although the act is clear on the competency of land use management being with local government, it also strengthens the cooperation between the spheres of government in that their future plans have to be coordinated. This leaves for a ‘predictable outcome’ for what our country will look like spatially in the future.
Finally, a major hurdle has been overcome. As to how its impact will be in practice remains to be seen. However, for now, it’s time to savour the moment, and celebrate. And in doing that, we should also be cognisant of the fact that the road ahead is still bumpy. The challenges will be vast, and there will be a lot of negativity, particularly from the ‘it-wont-work’ brigade. For now, lets get our hands dirty, for SPLUMA will be the measure by which the Planners of today are judged.
Indeed, “Yindelendlela…”
By: Itumeleng Nkoane
Vice-President: SAPI
SAPI Northern Cape aims to ensure that the region benefit of an excellence and progressive planning profession, which provide highly skilled experts/planners necessary for the betterment of the space communities.
Objective:
Overview of SAPI NC
Welcome to new Members1.Promote yourself as a member of a leading planning body and utilise the MSAPI (Member of SAPI) badge; 2.Be part of a knowledge sharing network by receiving key information via website and e-mail updates;3.Receive a discount equivalent to your annual SAPI membership fees for the premier planning event in the South African calendar;4. Conduct research, generate knowledge and present on the Planning Africa platform with potential for journal publication;5.Receive recognition and be part of recognising your peers through the various awards that SAPI promotes You can attend the SAPI Master Classes on a variety of practical skills topics which are valued at R750-00 per class at no charge;6.Be part of the annual World Town Planning Day campaign;7.Be part of a network of leading thinkers and practitioners;8.Make inputs and influence policy and legislative processes;9. Interact and engage with decision-makers in government and across the planning fraternity;10.Be part of a critical mass of practitioners that can communicate and market the profession to society;11.Receive assistance with professional registration, accessing work and employment opportunities; and12.Be part of international learning and linked to continental and global planning forums.
13.New members:Jacobus TreurnichTumelo ManokoMathapelo ModubuSchalk GrobbelaarTumelo Ditshetelo
Upgrade:Janette Labuschagne
Changed to SAPI NC:Troy Mulaudzi
Upcoming Events
SAPI Northern Cape
Date: Thursday, September 3, 2015 from 18:00 - 19:00
The presentation ’Planning for our children’s, children’s, children’ will set out the importance of involving young people in how they can shape the future of their places. Pam will explore the different ways in which TAYplan has engaged with young people and the success this has had. The presentation is intended to share good practice and to stimulate some discussion with young planners across the Commonwealth and other areas of good practice.
For more information, visit the CAP Young Planners Blog website at: <https://capyoungplanners.wordpress.com/>
Registration: Please email Viral Desai at [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>to register for the event. We hope you can make it!
CAPWebinar Series: 'Planning for our children's, children, children’
•To promote the interest and principles of the planning profession in the region;•To promote a high level of professionalism and ethical
conduct in the planning fraternity and broader interest of society at large;•To promote and protect the interest of its members;•To promote the standard of education and training of persons in the planning profession;•To ensure that planning within South Africa promotes sustainable development;•Advocate for planning legislative reforms in order to deal with challenges of growth and change in the region.•To promote inter-disciplinary discussion and collaboration.
SAPI T-SHIRT PROPOSAL
Clothing ideas and proposals:
Step 1: Email [email protected] 2: Provide your input or other ideas for the ShirtStep 3: Voting for the different shirts will take place in the next
SAPI Meeting
A reminder will be send prior to the meeting if you did place an order.
A MUST READ BOOK
But look what we have built with the first several billions: Low-income projects that become worse centers of delinquency, vandalism and general social hopelessness than the slums they were supposed to replace. Middle-income housing projects which are truly marvels of dullness and regimentation, sealed against any buoyancy or vitality of city life. Luxury housing projects that mitigate their inanity, or try to, with a vapid vulgarity. Cultural centers that are unable to support a good bookstore. Civic centers that are avoided by everyone but bums, who have fewer choices of loitering place than others. Commercial centers that are lackluster imitations of standardized suburban chain-store shopping. Promenades that go from no place to nowhere and have no promenaders. Expressways that eviscerate great cities. This is not the rebuilding of cities. This is the sacking of cities.
In addition to the meat of the book, buried in its first pages is Jacobs’ curious aside about illustration, alluding to the creative medium’s role as a sensemaking mechanism for the world:
The scenes that illustrate this book are all about us. For illustrations, please look closely at real cities. While you are looking, you might also listen, linger and think about what you see.
Call for Articles
SAPI Communications urge all persons to contribute to this newsletter and to share interesting news, dates, facts, happenings, projects, etc. regarding planning and development issues in the
Northern Cape.
Jane Jacobs is easily history’s most important writer in urban planning. Her massively influential The Death and Life of Great American Cities, originally published in 1961, is a book so central to the last half-century of urbanism that it’s almost an embarrassment to mention it in any kind of introductory context. Rather than a hapless attack on then-new planning policies and their negative impact on inner-city communities, Jacobs offers an intelligent, constructive critique that proposes new principles for
THE DEATH AND LIFE OF GREAT AMERICAN CITIES
planning and rebuilding smart, functional cities, debunking the widely held belief that if only we had enough money, we’d wipe out the slums, reverse urban decay, anchor the wandering tax money of the middle class, and even solve the traffic problem - a belief, mind you, that has metastasized all more dangerously in contemporary culture, some half a century later.
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URBAN QUOTE
DID YOU KNOW?A Dutch study found that people living near green space experienced fewer health complaints and had better physical and mental health than those living in an urban environment (de Vries etal., 2001).
"We must change the idea of going into a community and saying, this is what we will do for you. It should be driven around city dwellers' priorities and not the agencies." - Clara Doe Mvogo,
Mayor of Monrovia.
Participatory planning is an urban planning paradigm that emphasizes involving the entire community in the strategic and management processes of urban planning; or, community-level planning processes, urban or rural. It is often considered as part of community development. Participatory planning aims to harmonize views among all of its participants as well as prevent conflict between opposing parties.
After the “fall” of blueprint planning in the late 1950s and early 1960s, the synoptic model began to emerge as a dominant force in planning. Lane (2005) describes synoptic planning as having
four central elements: "(1) an enhanced emphasis on the specification of goals and targets; (2) an emphasis on
quantitative analysis and predication of the environment; (3) a concern to identify and evaluate alternative policy options; and
(4) the evaluation of means against ends (page 289)."
Sustainable development (SD) is a process for meeting human development goals while maintaining the ability of natural systems to continue to provide the natural resources and ecosystem services upon which the economy and society depend.
SAPI-NC Committee Members
Chairperson: Mphoentle Halenyane
SAPI Northern Cape
Ms. Mphoentle Halenyane started with her Bachelor of Science in Property Studies in 2005 and specialized in
Property Development as well as investment and valuation. In 2008 she conducted her Master of Science in City and
Regional Planning with her dissertation topic: Cosmo City - a step towards integrated human settlement and specialized in interventions based on local and regional scale. Currently (1st of 2 year programme) she is busy with a Post Graduate Diploma in Project Management at University of Cape Town.
Mphoentle is registered with South African Council of Planners (SACPLAN) as a Professional Planner and is a Corporate Member of The South African Planning Institute
(SAPI). Her work experience of almost 5 years as a Advisor for Economic Development and Planning at SALGA NC
includes supporting and advising municipalities on matters relating to: Integrated Development Planning (IDP), Local
Economic Development (LED), Town Planning procedures and processes.
She is passionate about the planning profession and its ability to contribute to the creation of sustainable human
settlements and thus transform lives. She hopes to make her contribution to this country and the profession though
credible integrated development plans, land use management and the creation of human settlements. Mphoentle's immediate term goal, is do her Town and Regional Planning PhD focusing on the upgrading of
informal settlements.
The new stepSA websiteBy Keamogetswe Maditse& Amy Pieterse
The stepSA collaborative initiative has played a key role in building capability and an evidence base to support high impact and transformative investment decisions in South African towns and cities. It has over the last 3 to 4 years seen a tremendous shift in moving from an original science and capability based investment by DST, CSIR and HSRC to a multi-agent collaborative initiative where ongoing research and development is increasingly supplemented through projects aimed at building onto critical outputs and the application of capabilities to support context and problem specific findings.
The stepSA website (http://stepsa.org) serves as a platform to disseminate knowledge and provide information on the initiative and research analyses and findings, decision support tools, spatial information and typologies and profiles that can be used to enhance spatial specific analyses, monitoring, prioritisation and research. Two of the key components of the stepSA website are the Spatial Indicators and the Interactive Regional Spatial Profiler.
The Spatial Indicators can be used to explore spatial change, growth dynamics and regional interactions (http://stepsa.org/spatial_indicators.html). For example, the Youth Movement indicator provides an indication of where the South African youth is moving to and from, which can then be compared with other indicators such as Change in Poor Households, Social Vulnerability, Employment Proximity and Access to Services among others, for the same spatial extent. This allows the user to develop a composite spatial analysis for a specific region using a range of indicators.
The Spatial Profiler (http://stepsa.org/regional_profiler.html) aims to support the contextual understanding of areas within their broader functional regions, as well as to spatially quantify dualities by combining different spatial indicators for specific localities. The tool is ideal to enhance provincial, regional and districts SDF's and sector plans such as housing, transport and infrastructure.
The stepSA team invites you to participate in informing research priorities, explore possible research collaboration or SHARE & SHOW CASE innovative indicators, research, advanced spatial analyses & use cases!For more information on the stepSA initiative and possible collaboration - Elsona van Huyssteen: [email protected]
For more information on the website email: [email protected].
SAPI PLANNING AFRICA CONFERENCE 2016
3 - 6 July 2016 Sandton Convention Centre
Johannesburg
Deputy Chairperson: Marvelous Seele
Email: [email protected] and Communication:
Janette Labuschagne Email: [email protected]
Secretary and Treasury:Freddy Netshivhodza
Email: [email protected] Member:
Schalk Grobbelaar (Junior)Email: [email protected]
The rest of the committee:
Mentorship Programme
The individual opinions raised in the newsletter is not that of SAPI-Northern Cape or its Committee Members.
NC pioneers regional modelling innovation with
DRDLR & CSIR teams
In response to the shortage of technical staff in local government, the LGSETA has recognised the need to support built environment, planning and geomatic candidates to develop the competencies required for professional registration. The most effective process for developing such competence is to:
Ensure that graduates register as candidates with their statutory bodies
•Follow a structured training programme covering an adequate range of activities
•Ensure that a mentor is in place to oversee development and implementation of a training programme and monitor progress
•Ensure that adequate supervision and coaching takes place
•Ensure that candidates take responsibility for the work assigned to them, record their experiences and review their progress on a regular basis with their mentors
•Ensure that candidates attend supplementary training as required by the professional body
•Candidate support will be offered in:
Civil Engineering
•Electrical and Electromechanical Engineering
•Town and Regional Planning
•Geomatics / GISc
By: Dumisani Ndaba [email protected] Elsona van Huyssteen [email protected]
The recently promulgated Spatial Planning and Land UseManagement Act (No.16 of 2013), requires National, Provincial,Regional and Municipal SDFs (i.e. see Sections 12, 18, 21, 24), to,amongst others things:
Identify place/context specific population and economic growth projections and spatial driving factors;•Simulate expected implications and risks of particular spatial patterns of growth & development, spatial policies and strategies;•Evaluate the relevant institutional abilities to reach spatially explicit development principles, norms and standards; and•Test spatial policies in specific regional contexts.
•Given that only provincial level and no official lower scale populationprojections are available in SA, and most long term municipal plansdo not contain population projections, a major need has beenidentified to obtain lower scale population and town growthprojections in order to support effective service delivery and highimpact investment decision-making.
In order to address this gap, a team from: 1. Council for Scientificand Industrial Research (CSIR)-Spatial Planning and SystemsGroup & University of Pretoria (UP), 2. Department of RuralDevelopment and Land Reform (DRDLR)-Spatial Planning and LandUse Management (SPLUMA),3. Northern Cape Province DRDLR and Spatial Planning Units,4. dedicated practitioners and, 5. members of the NC SPLUMA Technical Forum, joined forces. During the course of 2014 the multi-disciplinary team embarked on an endeavor to explore the viability of regional land use modelling to project possible spatial implications of future growth/decline in a part of the Gamagara mining region in the Northern Cape. The region is characterised by dynamic changes in the mining, energy and agriculture resource economy sectors; related implications on town growth, employment and service delivery; as well as environmental risks, resource interdependencies and pressures on municipalities in the area.
As part of the research and development process, a number of interrelated future growth scenarios were developed, supported byeconomic forecasts and policy directives. Expert knowledge wasprovided by a committed working group from the Northern Cape tosupport the identification of the most likely regional growth driversunder certain growth scenarios, policy directives and plans thatwould influence development, as well as locational specific drivers toidentify preferred and restricted development areas. Through aprocess of technical and collaborative innovation (also read dedication, expertise and patience during numerous iterations andwork sessions) a modelling framework for the region was developedduring the latter part of 2014. Hats off to the team of dedicated andhighly knowledgeable Northern Cape Planning Practitioners andespecially to Gerhard de Bruin, Schalk Grobbelaar, FreddyNetshivhodza, Gerrie van der Westhuizen, Henri Marais, their teamsand Prof Mark Oranje (UP)!
Whilst the exercise was experimental in nature, it provided a glimpse into the possible value in town growth and land-use modelling to inform planning and the critical importance of understanding regional and area specific growth dynamics. In Frances Baard DM for example, the Gamagara Regional Modelling Framework highlighted the strong inter-regional dependencies where; the sensitivity of the natural system, mining and agriculture dependencies in areas, fast changing employment and population movement dynamics; can potentially place substantial pressure on the capacity of fast growing service towns and Kimberley as regional center, in the area to deliver services in the future.
Feedback from the working group and results confirmed the valuein exploring the possible effect of development scenarios, policiesand major interventions on town growth, land use patterns anddevelopment demand. Such Regional Modelling Frameworkscould potentially fill a major gap to practitioners, inter-governmental forums, SDF's teams etc. to facilitate structured engagement with future growth scenarios and spatial implications thereof. For more information on this and other endeavours, see:<http://stepsa.org/simulating_the_future> or contact:Alize le Roux [email protected] orElsona van Huyssteen [email protected]
The NC and SET investment and lessons learned are currentlybeing taken forward by further research and development work tomake land-use and migration modelling a reality within regionsacross South Africa, through the DST, CSIR and HSRC as part ofthe ongoing stepSA Collaborative Initiative. For more information,please visit http://www.stepsa.org/simulatin_the_future.html
The next SAPI NC event will be communicated to you as soon as a date has been finalized...
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