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Initiator (with Respond). Sivile has offered strategic and technical assistance to the Greater Kokstad Municipality to further the project.
The Greater Kokstad Municipality is faced with challenges relating to inefficiency in terms of providing health care, good infrastructure, fulfilling commercial requirement of the community due to its location as border to Eastern Cape and Lesotho. In particular, the enormous influx of people in search of job opportunities from the adjoining rural areas of Eastern Cape poses major challenges to planning and service delivery. Relative to population densities, Kokstad is comparatively well-off in terms of infrastructure. There are a number of informal housing areas in Bhongweni, which are densely settled and largely unserviced. It is important that security of tenure be provided to residents so that they can access funding and develop further.
In 2008, Sivile undertook a planning exercise to identify community needs and to plan a social precinct area for Shayamoya and Bhongweni townships in Kokstad, KwaZulu Natal. The Shayamoya Social Precinct Plan was approved by the Greater Kokstad Municipality in 2008, and was used to guide the detailed planning, design and implementation of Phase One of the iThembalabantu Centre.
A Project Charter has been developed at a workshop of all key interested groups (GKM, DBSA, SCU, SIVILE, KZNDoHS, CoGTA, and Sisonke) in mid-September 2011 to set the framework agreement. The Charter was signed by all parties in October at the iThembalabantu Centre.
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