1. Budget Hearings: Portfolio Committee: 17 March 2000

2. Board’s Mandate Finalise and modify outer boundaries
Assessment of municipal capacity to perform functions and powers
Finalise and modify ward boundaries
Align Government service delivery boundaries

3. Board’s Institutional Base
Headquarters at Hatfield, Pretoria
Appointed Dr. Lulama Zitha as Manager, personnel complement of 11
Appointed Dataworld as GIS and Information consultants, plus over 100 consultants utilised from database

4. National GIS Database POINT FEATURES Hospitals,Clinics, Schools,
Police Stations etc
ATTRIBUTES
Financial Info
Socio-Economic
Service Backlogs
Contacts
Traditional Leaders
etc
LINE FEATURES
Roads, Rivers,
Contours etc
AREA FEATURES
Cadastral, Land Cover, Catchments,Voting Districts, Traditional Areas etc

5. GIS Database

6. Activities 1998/99 Year Set up institutional base Policy work
Identification nodal points
Ad Hoc demarcations

7. Process 1999/2000 Board followed all statutory requirements.
Stakeholders defined as National Department, MECs, SALGA, affected municipalities, Houses of Traditional Leaders, Magistrates.
Board also included: Political parties, Private Sector agencies, unions, civics, NGOs, Agricultural sector.
Problem is that some stakeholders have not assisted and in some cases have confused demarcation process.

8. Process facts Section 26 Submissions: A /C (787), B (816)
Objections to Section 21 Notices: A/B/C (750)
Hearings: 147 with 7268 attending
Investigations: throughout country
KwaZulu-Natal: House of Traditional Leaders made no submissions

9. www.demarcation.org.za October 1999: 93013 visits
November 1999: visits
December 1999: visits
January 2000: visits
February 2000: visits
TOTAL TO DATE: visits
TOLL FREE LINE:

10. Board and Stakeholders
Board meetings: 31 plus workshops
Stakeholder meetings: 7 national, 3 rounds of provincial briefings
Media briefings: 10
Circulars to over 1500 stakeholders: 7

11. Rationalisation There are likely to be:
6 (A Category) Metropolitan areas
46 (C category) District Municipalities
232 (B category) Local Municipalities
District Management Areas in 14 of the District Councils.

13. Cross Boundary Municipalities
During week of 21 February Board finalised all boundaries
Respective provincial legislatures to pass resolutions by April
Work on National Act and provincial agreements will then continue: (I) Finances (II) Provincial functions

14. District Management Areas
Deserts and semi-desert areas
State-managed conservation areas
Special Economic Areas

15. Powers and Functions

16. Powers and Functions Section 84(1) - MSA
Integrated development planning for the district
Bulk supply of water
Bulk supply of electricity
Bulk sewage purification works and main sewage disposal
Solid waste disposal sites
Municipal roads (District)
Regulation of passenger transport services.
Municipal airports
Municipal health services
Fire fighting services
Fresh produce markets and abattoirs
Cemeteries and crematoria
Local tourism
Municipal public works
The receipt, allocation and, if applicable, the distribution of grants
The imposition and collection of taxes, levies and duties

17. Powers and Functions Schedule 4 Part B
Air pollution
Building regulations
Child care facilities
Electricity and gas reticulation
Fire fighting services
Local tourism
Municipal airports
Municipal planning
Municipal health service
Municipal public transport
Municipal public works
Pontoons, ferries, jetties ETC
Storm water management
Trading regulations
Water and sanitation services

18. Powers and Functions Schedule 5 Part B
Beaches and amusement facilities
Billboards /advertisements in public places
Cemeteries etc
Cleansing
Control of public nuisances
Liquor Control
Animals
Fencing and fences
Licensing of dogs
Licensing etc for the selling food to the public
Local amenities
Local sport facilities
Markets
Municipal abattoirs
Municipal parks and recreation
Municipal roads
Noise pollution
Pounds
Public places
Refuse removal, refuse dumps etc
Street trading
Street lighting
Traffic and parking

19. Assessment of Capacity
Assessments completed
Working documents to be provided to MECs from 28 March 2000
Detailed assessments to be available on 14 April 2000
Board providing capacity to provincial Steering Committees

20. Coordinating Committee
Powers and Functions
Finances
Section 12, Legal Issues and Transitional mechanisms

21. Wards 1: Split VDs
The MDB and IEC identify and sort out the split Voting Districts.
Some 732 VDs split affecting voters.
The MDB and IEC together working through these.

22. Wards 2: Decide on registration
Number of councillors and hence wards affected by the number of registered voters.
Recommendation: Board believes registration drive should be held in March 2000.
Voters could register according to existing VDs, except where VDs are too large or are split, in which case the IEC would design ‘new’ VDs and voters would register into these and those on the voters rolls in the split VDs would be allocated into these ‘new’ VDs.

23. Wards 3: Public comment
On 14 March 2000, Board publishes each municipal boundary showing each VD and number of voters within that VD.
The Board requests public comment on how the VDs could be combined into wards based on the draft norms for each ward. Comment would have to be submitted to the Board by 31 March 2000.

24. Ward 4: Draft wards
On 10 April, based on the final registrations, councillor formulae and comment on wards, the Board would publish draft ward boundaries.

25. Ward 5: ‘Hearings’ Public hearings to get comment on ward boundaries
Completed by 20 April 2000 and then analysed.

26. Ward 6: Finalisation
May 2: Board finalises wards and publishes for objections comment
May 29: Publish final boundaries
Note: The Board may finalise some boundaries earlier if completed.

27. PROCESS Still on track:
Final boundaries have been published week of 28/2
Councillor formulae expected 31 March 2000
Ward delimitation to be finalised by 29 May 2000
Government service delivery alignments to commence

28. Budget 2000/2001
Finalising personnel (appointed Information officer and Executive Secretary)
Completing work for November elections and subcouncils in metropolitan areas
Developing policy on categories of municipality
Maintaining and coordinating integrated information base
Ad Hoc Demarcations