If sustainable growth and developmental outcomes are to be attained the efficiency of South Africa’s economy needs to be significantly improved. Because a key ingredient of an efficient economy is good, reliable connectivity, this month’s dialogue addresses an element of infrastructure crucial to ensure effective connectivity for both freight/goods and people.

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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
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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
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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
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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.

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This dialogue will focus on the delivery of an integrated public transport system and services
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The Constitution allocates municipalities five over-arching functions: to govern in a democratic manner;  to ensure the provision of basic services; to promote social and economic development;  to promote a safe and healthy environment; and to encourage community participation in local government.

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As a result of these five functions, Municipalities play a key
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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.
The CSIR in a study undertaken on the ‘State of municipal infrastructure in
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To assist municipalities improve their planning, programming and budgeting capability, (including accessing and use of MIG funding), the dplg in partnership with the DBSA developed the MIIF. This framework has now been through several iterations and been both expanded and improved. The dialogue provides a platform for interrogating the MIIF in
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