Urban regeneration has been a recurrent theme of urban development discourse in South Africa for many years. Thus inner cities in many parts of the country have become the focus of dedicated strategies aimed at reversing their decline. Special institutional structures have been created within municipalities to aid in this task for example the Johannesburg
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There has been an increase in reports of deteriorating infrastructure in municipalities across South Africa, which highlights the critical need to maintain existing infrastructure to sustain and support public service delivery and boost economic growth in the future. In response to massive service backlogs and recent widespread protests against inadequate service delivery, the government has
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South Africa needs about R473-billion for backlog eradication, upgrading, growth and expansion, rehabilitation and the replacement of 
existing municipal infrastructure, PDG consultant Kim Walsh said at the inaugural Infrastructure Dialogue. The meeting focused on the Municipal Infrastructure Investment Framework (MIIF) and was held at the Development Bank of Southern Africa (DBSA) last week. Besides other
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The first of what is set to be a series of “Infrastructure Dialogues” to be hosted jointly by the Development Bank of Southern Africa (DBSA) and the Support Programme for Accelerated Infrastructure Development (Spaid), will take place on Thursday, June 25. The discussion will focus on the ‘Municipal Infrastructure Investment Framework (MIIF)’ and will take
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Protests over poor public service delivery have soared this year. While service delivery remains a critical issue an equally critical issue is the increasing proportion of deteriorating infrastructure, often resulting in a poor and often unacceptable quality of services. Protests over poor public service delivery have soared this year. While service delivery remains a critical
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Quantifying the Challenge and Monitoring Progress. Protests over poor public service delivery have soared this year. While service delivery remains a critical issue an equally critical issue is the increasing proportion of deteriorating infrastructure, often resulting in a poor and often unacceptable quality of services. Protests over poor public service delivery have soared this year.
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In his 2010 State of the Nation Address, the President reiterated the importance of the national infrastructure investment programme: “Underpinning our strategy for ecomomic recovery and growth, is our capital investment programme.  Over the next three years government will spend R846 billion on public infrastructure”. A large portion of this spend will be in the
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The challenges Municipalities face in adaptation and mitigation of the effects of climate change on their Infrastructure. Governments from around the world met in December to discuss policy and the way forward in dealing with the effects of Climate Change (Conference of the Parties -15 of the United Nations Convention on Climate Change in Copenhagen). 
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The focus of this dialogue is on the anticipated legacy impacts of the infrastructure provided, both directly and indirectly, to support the hosting of the FIFA 2010 World Cup tournament.Mega events do hold all sorts of connotations and clearly instil hope for host nations. For South Africa and the African continent at this historical juncture,
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Municipal Public Transport is a critical issue for South Africa because in terms of the National Public Transport Strategy and Action Plan 2007, municipalities are now responsible for ensuring the availability of affordable, efficient and integrated public transport. INPUT DOCUMENTS Dialogue Report Source Documents Presentations / Perspectives Dialogue Documents This dialogue will focus on the delivery of an integrated
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