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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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or #SACPLAN1 us on any planning related tweets
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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,
News from the Gazettes
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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."
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