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SACPLAN Bulletin e-Newsletter for the South African Council for Planners

Volume 3 Issue 5 December 2013

The South African Council for Planners extends its deepest sympathy to the family and friends of

former president Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela.

As we bid farewell to Mr Mandela we urge all to think about his life and how he changed the world. Let

us then also live his legacy through our motto

“Reinvent Planning, Changing Lives”.

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We have come to the end of another year that were

full of new and exciting prospects within planning.

The Minister of Rural Development and Land

Reform, Mr GE Nkwinti, appointed a new SACPLAN

Council and the Appeal Board on 23 January 2013.

Draft Regulations were published in terms of the

Planning Profession Act, 2002 during November

2013. Draft Rules and a draft Code of Conduct were

also published for comments.

The SACPLAN Bulletin also reported on the Spatial

Planning and Land Use Management Act, 2013

(SLUMA). We will be following the implementation of

the act and will keep registered persons informed of

this.

We also celebrated World Town Planning Day in

November. November 8 is a special day to recognise

and promote the role of planning in creating liveable

communities.

The SACPLAN also participated in celebrating World

Town Planning Day (WTPD) through inter alia the

WTPD online Conference. The topic for the 2013

conference was “Water and Planning: the Fluid

Challenge”. This event is part of a collaboration by

planning organisations from around the world.

We have focussed on three of the 11 Universities

during the year being the Durban University of

Technology, the University of the Free State (UFS),

and the University of Venda (Univen). In this Bulletin

we are focussing on the University of Cape Town

(UCT).

One of SACPLANs mandates from the Planning

Profession Act, 2002 relates the accreditation visits.

The SACPLAN must conduct accreditation visits to

any educational institution which has a department,

school or faculty of planning, at least once in five

years. The SACPLAN may then grant, conditionally

grant, refuse or withdraw the accreditation of

educational programmes with regards to planning:

During this year three accreditation visits were

carried out. We have visited the University of

Stellenbosch, the University of the Witwatersrand,

and the University of Venda.

There has also been a growth in the number of

planners registering in all three the categories of

registration. There are currently 1 778 registered

Professional Planners, 197 registered Technical

Planners, and 875 registered Candidate Planners.

The LinkedIn group also grew and has now a

membership in excess of 840 people. Some of the

most active discussions on LinkedIn are “Do you

think the planning profession needs a “professional”

and a “technical” category”; “Why are IDPs not

included in the job reservation regulations for

planner”; and “With the current SAs housing backlog,

what innovative designs can we contribute in making

life in informal settlements particularly shacks more

dignified?”. If you would like to follow these

discussions or to contribute go to the SACPLAN

LinkedIn group.

The newly created Twitter account (@SACPLAN1)

has at the moment 40 followers.

As we go to the December holiday and the festive

season, lets enjoy ourselves, but remember to keep

our environment clean. I wish all a well deserved rest

to be able to approach the new year with renewed

energy.

SACPLAN Motto:

Reinvent Planning, Changing Lives

Message from the CEO

In this Issue

Message from the CEO

Focus on the University of Cape Town

Know your Council Member

Newly Registered Planners

Increase in Annual Fees

News from the Gazettes

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The University of Cape Town Masters programme in

City and Regional Planning is a two-year course-work

and dissertation programme with the first year at

honours level and the second year at masters level. It

is located in the Faculty of Engineering and the Built

Environment, and in the School of Architecture,

Planning and Geomatics. It has close relationships

with the African Centre for Cities, also located in the

School. The programme is currently accredited by the

SACPLAN and the RTPI.

The curriculum is structured to offer a graduated

learning experience over two years (four semesters)

of study to students drawn from a wide variety of

academic backgrounds. Each semester focuses on a

different scale of planning, moving from the local to

the regional. The progression in scale is a key

structuring device in terms of the theory and

techniques courses that run concurrently, and fits

well with spatial planning focus of the programme.

Each of the first three semesters is divided into

theory courses and a project-based course, with the

project used to demonstrate the integration and

application of theory. Projects involve ‘simulated’ or

real-life planning tasks: students work partly in

groups and partly individually, and move through

phases of analysis, diagnosis, engagement with

theory and precedent, proposals, and implemen-

tation. This enables them to develop the technical

and professional awareness and skills that will make

them more effective practitioners. Theory courses

deal with the substantive and conceptual knowledge

which we believe planners need. The fourth semester

is devoted to a dissertation, although work on framing

a topic starts in the first year.

In most of the semester 1 courses, MCRP students

are taught together with urban design and landscape

students to encourage mutual learning and

inter-disciplinarity. Most of the theory courses in

semester 1 are also electives available to post-

graduate architecture students. In the third semester

MCRP and Master of Landscape Architecture (MLA)

programmes combine for a 6 week project and theory

on regional environmental and resource planning.

The entire first year of the Master in City Planning

and Urban Design Programme (MCPUD) is shared

with MCRP students.

The distinctive contribution the MCRP Programme

seeks to make to planning education is informed by

our collectively held philosophies about planning and

its role in society. We aim to inspire graduates to

become reflective, ethical and creative practitioners

and scholars, as well as critical thinkers. The

uniqueness or identity of the programme is that,

relative to other planning programmes in South

Africa, it has a strong focus on spatial planning at the

local, city-wide and regional scales as well as a

strong focus on the natural environment. These areas

of focus respond to the issues of the South African

context, where cities still bear the strong spatial

imprint of apartheid and its implications for social and

economic inequalities, and where rapid urbanization

in a globally unique environmental region, demands

that planners are highly competent in both these

areas of concern.

Four full time staff members are responsible for the

MCRP, all being experience planning teachers and

researchers. There are also inputs from staff in urban

design, landscape, other departments in the faculty

and in other faculties, and from practitioners.

Last year we told the story of our collaborative—

informal settlement upgrading—project with commu-

nity leaders and residents of Langrug. Much progress

has taken place since then, as residents and the

Municipality of Stellenbosch are now awaiting

SACPLAN’s VISION

To pioneer the founding spirit of innovation in the facilitation of sustainable and inclusive development in the planning profession.

Focus on the University of

Cape Town

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approval from the Provincial Government for Phase 3

of the Upgrading of Informal Settlements Programme

(UISP).

Langrug Informal Settlement, Franschhoek Valley,

Western Cape

In addition to ongoing collaborations with community

leaders, residents, and the Municipality of Stellen-

bosch, Professor Vanessa Watson is facilitating a

faculty-wide and interdisciplinary project with the City

of Cape Town known as Future Foreshore. Fitting-

ly, the site for this project houses one of Cape Town’s

most idiosyncratic images: “The Incomplete Free-

way”. Students from the planning, urban design,

landscape architecture, and architecture pro-

grammes, in addition to property management

students, civil, chemical and electrical engineering

students are all working on this complex, but exciting,

project which will culminate in public exhibitions and

installations of UCT students’ work during the 2014

World Design Capital celebrations.

Cape Town is the Word Design Capital for 2014.

This accolade serves as an opportunity to showcase

Cape Town’s ‘creative talents', which include not only

conventional understandings of ‘creativity’ and

‘design’, but also include more creative understand-

ings of how we might integrate our divided and frag-

mented city through ‘design’ (in the broadest sense).

A re-imagined foreshore precinct might then become

a future urban node of integration. And, to be clear,

our faculty-wide project is certainly not entertaining

the idea of completing the freeways.

The North Foreshore Precinct is the site of UCT’s

faculty-wide project

Some analyses of the North Foreshore Precinct site

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Mr Madima completed the Bachelor of Arts and a

University Education Diploma from the University of

the North, a Master of Science, Urban & Regional

Planning from the Natal University with a Thesis

entitled Citizen Participation in Planning, and a

Master of Science, Engineering Business Manage-

ment from the University of Warwick in the United

Kingdom with the Thesis entitled Risk Management

in Social Housing. Mr Madima also completed a

number of Post Graduate course.

Mr Madima was employed as a Town & Regional

Planner, Senior Town and Regional Planner and

Deputy Director: Planning in the Venda Government.

He also held the positions of Director Planning –

Northern Province Dept. of Land, Housing and Local

Government, Director: Professional Services –

Northern Province Department of Housing and Water

Affairs, Director: Housing Administration Northern

Province, Department of Housing and Local

Government, Director Corporate Services – Northern

Province, Department of Local Government and

Housing, and Director: Development Planning-

Department of Local Government and Housing,

Limpopo Province. He currently is the Managing

Member of Khirisha Professional Services Consultant

and Tshiongolwe Development Planning Consultants

His experience are in the Compilation of LUMS, IDP’s

and SDF’s, Compilation of Business Plans, Develop-

ment Planning, Formulation and Implementation of

Strategic Plans, Housing Development, Local

Government and Governance, Compilation of Led

Plans, and Township Development.

Mr Madima is a member of DPSA. He was the first

chair of DPSA. Mr Madima is also a member of SAPI

and was also a SAPI Board Member. He is currently

the Deputy Chairperson of the SACPLAN Council.

During the year the SACPLAN has approved applica-

tions from 310 new Candidate Planners, 36 new

Technical Planners, and 160 new Professional

Planners. The following figures provides the distribu-

tion between the different Planning Schools.

Newly Registered Planners

Know your Council Member

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The following applications for registration with

SACPLAN were approved during the last Council

Meeting:

As Professional Planners:

Mr. Mhlongo Musa Moses; Mr. Odendaal Andries

Albertus; Ms. Morake Thuso Frumentia; Mr. Baloyi

Lawulani Enock; Mr. Roos Gert Lukas; Ms. Leboko

Pauline Gloria; Mr. Lithole Vhatuwi Freddy; Ms.

Ngxwashula Ntomboxolo; Ms. Ntlangula Zininzi; Mr.

Shipalana Nkateko Bubby; Ms. Subban Jacqueline

Marion; Mr Calitz Coenraad Werner; Mr. Masuabi

George Eustice Christopher; Ms. Bannister Susan

Muriel; Mr. Rehder Alexander; Ms. Sikhonyana

Ntombizanele Veronica; Mr. Forster Clive William;

Mr. Kadungure Ivan; Mr. Matjila Stephen Orly; Mr.

Netshivhundini Ndivhuwo Gerson; Mrs. Berlington

Tshiamo Perseverance; Mrs. Heeralall-Bhoora

Rowena; Ms. Malinga Nonjabulo Nombulelo; Mr.

Mnguni Njabulo Felix; Mrs. Matemane Blantina

Manako; Mr. Gibb Dean Charles; Mr. Adegeye

Adefemi Olayide; Mr. Mashiri Macdonald Abe

Makuseni

As Technical Planners:

Ms. Mazibuko Precious Mbalenhle; Mr. Khosa

Hundzukani; Ms. Nene Sibongile; Mr. Majola

Mpumelelo Nhlakanipho; Ms. Muronga

Ntanganedzeni Patience; Mr. Hendricks Wayne Eslin;

Mr. Mametja Kgaugelo Selaelo

As Candidate Planners:

Mr. Philander Jade Nicholas; Ms. Morare

Motsanaphe; Mr. Marwane Olebogeng Godfrey

Stephen; Mr. Ntsenyeho Mpho Given; Ms. Maluleke

Rivoningo Getrude; Ms. Jali Sinoxolo Praiseworth;

Ms. Manamela Khutso Phuti Comfort; Ms. Sello

Khumo Idah; Ms. Mokoma Tanki; Ms. Kala Sinazo

Zininzi; Ms. Nkunkuma Lwandisi; Ms. Shube Sanele

Nicolette Elsie; Mr. Mkhungo Nkululeko Magnificent;

Mr. Metswi Kgosietsile Malcolm; Ms. De Wet

Edelynn; Mr. Radingoana Kholofelo Mphatseng; Mr.

Shange Nkanyezi Khwezi; Mr. Van Niekerk

Hermanus Lucas; Mr. Ngobeni Zenzele Joseph; Mr.

Munzhelele Thembuluwo; Ms. Ndlela Lindelwa; Ms.

Ramjith Jenisha; Ms. Amod Bilquis; Mr. Mogoba

Malebana Nelson; Ms. Moeti Mahlatse Maggie; Mr.

Mathiela Nkululeko; Mr. Dube Andile Ntuthuko; Ms.

Matyolo Yolanda; Mr. Mayisela Frank Thobani

Halalisani; Mr. Kruger Herman Lubbe; Mrs. Perumal

Janette Govindamah; Mr. Ndaba Sondelani; Mr.

Pretorius Matthew Aaron; Mr. Mushadu Thanyani

Vision; Mr. Ngwenya Innocent Kwanele; Mr.

Oosthuizen Willem Renier; Ms. Masilo Retlametswe

Rose; Ms. Naidoo Devashnee; Ms. Jordaan

Andisiwe; Ms. Nkhanedzeni Ntsieleni; Mr. Menon

Avinash Gopakumar; Mr. Gungaparsad Kelvin

Deoduth; Mr. Setati Lekota Constantinus; Ms.

Hlekane Ntwisiso; Mr. Mbhele Nkosikhona Bantu; Mr.

Tshikororo Rudzani; Ms. Zulu Silindile Nosipho

Wendy; Ms. Mkhize Nothile Samkelwe; Ms. Van

Eyssen Jacorien; Mr. Jaya Tafadzwa Theophelous;

Ms. Booysen Karla; Mr. Khoza Eddie Mduduzi; Ms.

Mpungose Nompumelelo Celiwe Princes; Mr. Cronje

Jean-Pierre; Ms. Sigwaza Sinenhlanhla; Mr. Sithole

Ayanda; Mr. Ngumbela Sivuyile.

The SACPLAN has resolved during it last Council

meeting that the Annual fees in respect of Candidate

Planners, Technical Planners as well as Professional

Planners be increased by approximately 5%. These

annual fees have been unchanged for the last three

years, and it was necessary to re-evaluate these fees

in the light of ever increasing costs.

The registration fee was also increased.

The new Annual Fees are as follows:

Candidate Planner - R365.00

Full-time Students in accredited Planning

qualifications, provided proof of registration is

submitted before the payment due date - R50.00

Technical Planner - R485.00

Professional Planner - R750.00

Retired Persons (Persons 60-69y subject to

approval - R150.00

All persons 70y and older irrespective of Category

of Registration - Exempted

The new fees will be effective as from 1 April 2014.

Increase in Annual Fees

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Geomatics Profession Act, 2013 (Act No. 19 of

2013)

(National Gazettes, No 37142 of 10 December,

2013.)

The Geomatics Profession Act, 2013 provides for the

transformation of the geomatics profession; to

provide for the establishment of the South African

Geomatics Council as a juristic person; to provide for

the facilitation of accessibility to the geomatics

profession; to provide for different categories of

registered persons and branches in the geomatics

profession; to provide for the identification of areas of

work to be performed by the different categories of

registered persons; to provide for the recognition of

certain voluntary associations by the Council; to

provide for measures designed to protect the public

from unethical geomatics practices; to provide for

measures in order to maintain a high standard of

professional conduct and integrity; to provide for the

establishment of disciplinary mechanisms; to provide

for the establishment of an Appeal Board; and to

provide for matters connected therewith

Northern Cape Planning and Development Act

(7/1998) - Kheis Local Municipality

Preparation of Municipal Spatial Development

Framework

The !Kheis Local Municipality gave notice in terms of

the provisions of Section 30 of the Northern Cape

Planning and Development Act, 1998 (Act 7 of 1998),

of its intention to prepare a Spatial Development

Framework for its municipal area (hereafter referred

to as the Spatial Development Framework or SDF, to

be consistent with the Spatial Planning and Land Use

Management Act, 2013).

Northern Cape Planning and Development Act

(7/1998) - Nama Khoi Local Municipality

Preparation of a Land Development Plan / Municipal

Spatial Development Framework

The Nama Khoi Local Municipality gave notice in

terms of the provisions of Section 30 of the Northern

Cape Planning and Development Act, 1998 (Act 7 of

1998), of its intention to prepare a Land Development

Plan/ Spatial Development Framework for its

municipal area (hereafter referred to as the Spatial

Development Framework or SDF, to be consistent

with the Spatial Planning and Land Use Management

Act, 2013).

Local Government - Municipal Systems Act

(32/2000) - Mpofana Local Municipality - By-

laws relating to advertising

Municipal Notice No. 66

The Municipal Manager of the Mpofana Local

Municipality, in terms of section 13(a) of the Local

Government: Municipal Systems Act, 2000 (Act No.

32 of 2000), published the By-laws relating to

Advertising for the Mpofana Local Municipality as

approved by its Council

Local Government - Municipal Systems Act

(32/2000) - Mpofana Local Municipality - By-

laws relating to encroachment

Municipal Notice No. 68

The Municipal Manager of the Mpofana Local

Municipality, in terms of section 13(a) of the Local

Government: Municipal Systems Act, 2000 (Act No.

32 of 2000), published the By-laws relating to

Encroachment For the Mpofana Local Municipality as

approved by its Council.

Local Government - Municipal Systems Act

(32/2000) - Mpofana Local Municipality - By-

laws relating to street trading

Municipal Notice No. 70

The Municipal Manager of the Mpofana Local

Municipality, in terms of section 13(a) of the Local

Government: Municipal Systems Act, 2000 (Act No.

32 of 2000), published the By-laws relating to Street

Trading for the Mpofana Local Municipality as

approved by its Council.

Engineering Profession Act (46/2000) -

Guideline for services and processes for esti-

mating fees for persons registered in terms of

the Act

National Gazettes, No 37102 of 04 December, 2013

Board Notice No. 243

The Engineering Council of South Africa, under

Section 34(2) of the Engineering Profession Act,

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2000 (Act No. 46 of 2000), provides this guideline for

determining the services to be provided on projects

and to facilitate estimations of appropriate fees that

could be used in negotiations between Clients and

the Consulting Engineers.

National Environmental Management Act

(107/1998) - Amendment to Environmental Im-

pact Assessment Regulations Listing Notice 2

0f 2010

Government Notice No. 923

In this notice "the Notice" means the notices pub-

lished by Government Notice No. R. 545 of 2 August

2010, as amended by Government Notices Nos. R.

660 of 30 July 2010 and R. 1159 of 10 December

2010.

Amendment of Appendix 1 to the Notice 2.

Appendix 1 to the Notice is hereby amended by the

addition of the following item after item 26:

"27. The construction of facilities for the treatment of

effluent, wastewater or sewage with a daily through-

put capacity of 15000 cubic metres or more.".

National Environmental Management Act

(107/1998) - Amendments to Environmental

Impact Assessment Regulations Listing No-

tice 1 of 2010

Government Notice No. 922

In this notice "the Notice" means the notices pub-

lished by Government Notice No. R. 544 of 2 August

2010, as amended by Government Notices Nos. R.

660 of 30 July 2010 and R. 1159 of 10 December

2010.

Insertion of items 55A and 55B in the Notice 2.

The following items are hereby inserted in the Notice,

after item 55:

"55A. The construction of facilities for the treatment of

effluent, wastewater or sewage with a daily

throughput capacity of more than 2000 cubic metres

but less than 15 000 cubic metres."

"55B. The expansion of facilities for the treatment of

effluent, wastewater or sewage on undeveloped land

where the capacity will be increased by 15 000 cubic

metres or more per day."

For Contributions to the SACPLAN Bulletin

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