1. Rural Roads Capacitation – Roads Leading to the ECPTA Reserves Provincial Tourism Co-ordinating Committee 27 October 2015

2. Contents Background Current Status of Programme Summary of ECPTA Roads Included in the Draft Specific Roads Identified Way Forward

3. Background Task team comprising various stakeholders set up to capacitate government to construct and maintain rural roads. Funded by a special intervention grant from PT to tackle high profile and low hanging fruit projects Various stakeholders were requested to identify roads in need of upgrading, submission was received from ECPTA Mandate of intervention programme was limited to rural roads, but excluding provincial roads (ie only municipal roads) Focus on capacitation of district and local municipalities.

4. Current Status of Programme Business plan is being finalised for submission for funding over the 2016/17, 2017/18 and 2018/19 financial years. Qualifying roads that were submitted by the relevant stakeholders have been included in the draft business case

5. Summary of ECPTA Roads Included in the Draft 74.25km of qualifying roads were identified from the proposal from ECPTA, comprising 19.03km gravel and 55.21km earth / track roads Total cost is estimated at R40.74 comprising R7.61m for re-gravelling and R33.13m for reconstruction

6. Specific Roads Identified ReserveRoute Road Length (km)Needs Cost x (R million) Gravel Earth / Track Total Regravelli ng Reconstr uction Total Great Fish Nature ReserveR345 (Peddie to Alice) - total length 60km0.0012.81 0.007.69 Great Fish Nature Reserve D2048 (Fort Beaufoert Road to Retreat) - total length 22km 0.004.46 0.002.68 Great Fish Nature Reserve D2048 (Fort Beaufoert Road to Retreat) - total length 22km 0.001.30 0.000.78 Great Fish Nature Reserve Grassland road - 4.5km Botha's Post down fenceline - 4.5km 12.5612.8325.395.027.7012.72 Baviaanskloof World Heritage Site R332 (Poortjies to Western Section) - total length 70km 1.820.161.980.730.090.82 Baviaanskloof World Heritage Site Tourism Node link (WHS Interpretive Centre and Goedehoop link Causeway) - total length 40m causeway/bridge 0.001.58 0.000.95 Dwesa Nature Reserve Dwesa Point to the beach - total length 5km 0.001.85 0.001.11 Dwesa Nature Reserve R44 (Willovale to Dwesa) - total length 48km 0.001.16 0.000.70 Mkhambathi Nature Reserve T23/1 Road from Flagstaff to Mkhambathi 70km (35km tarred and the remaining 35km bad gravel) Internal Roads a) Waterfall Road - 5.7km b) Point Road - 27km c) Main gate road - 2.8km 0.0019.07 0.0011.44 Silaka Nature ReservePort St Johns to Silaka = 7km (with 1.5km gravel)1.570.001.570.630.000.63 Silaka Nature Reserve Internal Roads a) Main gate to gate No.2 = 3.5km b) Beach road = 1km 3.090.003.091.230.001.23 19.0355.2174.257.6133.1340.74

7. Way Forward Business plan to be submitted for addition to MTEF. Followed by detailed planning and implementation Capacitation of district and local municipalities is a priority.