Newsletter No. 4
30 January 2004 
HIV/AIDS
Mainstreaming programme business plan (2004-06)
This business plan is linked directly to the SACN’s overall business plan. It falls within the central CDS core theme of the SACN’s work, and relates to all four sector themes. The programme business plan specifically sets out activities in more detail, relating to the thirty month period from January 2004 to July 2006.
[HIV/Aids Mainstreaming programme Business Plan]
[Research Brief: A Review of City Responses]

BUFFALO CITY
Houses, hope for Nompumelelo residents
Buffalo City Municipality has initiated a project to improve the lives of 1,200 families living in the Nompumelelo informal settlement in Beacon Bay, East London, by building houses and upgrading the infrastructure.
[Read more]


TSHWANE

New city manager moves from Joburg
Tshwane's new city manager, Blake Mosley-Lefatola, who started as the administrative head of the Tshwane Metro at the beginning of January, will be taking to his job vast experienced gained working as a regional director for the City of Johannesburg.
[Read more]


SERVICES

Joburg gets tough on defaulters
Joburg residents who default on payment for services can expect to be left in the dark: the council's new credit control strategy, which aims to streamline the process of the termination of services and legal action in respect of defaulters, has kicked in with great success.
[Read more]


HOUSING

eThekwini moves to clear slums
Housing Minister Brigitte Mabandla officially handed over 1,216 homes to families living at Welbedacht, previously a slum, as part of the government's project to clear the eThekwini Municipality of all slums as envisaged in the urban renewal strategy.
[Read more]


REVENUE

State bids to control power networks
Business Day reported that government is considering changing the constitution to get the long-delayed restructuring of the power sector moving, with some municipalities reluctant to cede their right to distribute electricity, and surrender billions in user fees
[Read more]


CAPE TOWN

Partnership establishes Tutu Peace Centre
The City of Cape Town and the Desmond Tutu Peace Trust have entered into a partnership to establish a Peace Centre in the Mother City, according to Executive Mayor Nomaindia Mfeketo
[Read more]


ANNUAL REPORT

Joburg upbeat over world-class city status
Executive Mayor Amos Masondo says the 2002/03 Annual Report shows that the City of Johannesburg has positioned itself to become a world-class African city and that council has entered the second phase of its five-year electoral term with renewed confidence.
[Read more on Joburg website]
CONFERENCE

Energy declaration issued in Cape Town
Partiticipants of the conference have called for a sustainable energy vision that would guide the development of a framework, within which cities and stakeholders can assess and prioritize policies and measures which realises the vision.
[Read more]

PRESENTATIONS

Trends and challenges in sub-Saharan Africa
By 2020, Africa will have 11 cities with more than 5-million inhabitants and more than 3 000 cities with populations bigger than 20 000 - an increase of almost 300% from 1990.
[Click here for the SACN presentation]
In Powerpoint format


SA Cities and the national economy
Andrew Boraine, chairperson of the South African Cities Network, gave a presentation at the DTI Economic Agencies Symposium on 28 October 2003
[Powerpoint presentation ]

DOCUMENTS

Knowledge sharing
SACN hosted an interactive discussion on knowledge sharing in the public sector, with a particular focus on local government, on 25 September 2003.
[Read more]



SECRETARIAT

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EVENTS CALENDAR

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