In South Africa, the government’s transformation process, which effectively started in 1994,
not only resulted in a new democracy, a new governmental dispensation or a ‘new South
Africa’, but it also spearheaded a significant, rapid and radical transformation of local
government in South Africa, as well as a radical transformation of municipal planning.
During the mid- to late 1990s, significant strides were made in South Africa by government,
planning institutions and planners to develop a new more appropriate, integrated,
developmental, democratic, strategic and sustainable development planning system
– in line with the international planning principles and the emerging focus of the new
democratic South African government.
Currently, almost two decades later, the South African municipal planning system, in spite
of various efforts and policy developments, is still struggling to adapt to, and implement
the new principles and is not addressing the development goals in all parts of the
country effectively.
In order to set a basis for assessing the challenges of, and gaps in the current planning
system, this article discusses the characteristics of the (new) transforming planning system
and examines some of the most important efforts being made on policy level and in
practice to promote the new principles.
This article presents an interrogation of the gaps in the planning system in an attempt to
present some propositions to address these shortcomings.
In Suid-Afrika het die regering se transformasieproses, wat daadwerklik in 1994 begin het,
nie net tot ’n nuwe demokrasie, ’n nuwe regeringsbedeling of ’n “nuwe Suid-Afrika” gelei
nie, maar was dit ook die begin van aansienlike, snelle en fundamentele transformasie
ten opsigte van plaaslike regerings in Suid-Afrika, en van radikale transformasie wat
stadsbeplanning betref.
Gedurende die middel tot laat 1990’s het die Suid-Afrikaanse regering, beplanningsinstansies
en beplanners aansienlike vordering gemaak met die beplanning van ’n meer
toepaslike, geïntegreerde, ontwikkelingsgerigte, demokratiese, strategiese en volhoubare
ontwikkelingsbeplanningstelsel – in ooreenstemming met internasionale beplanningsbeginsels
en die nuwe demokratiese regering se ontluikende fokus.
Vandag, byna twee dekades later en ten spyte van verskeie pogings en beleidsontwikkelings,
sukkel die Suid-Afrikaanse munisipale beplanningstelsel nog steeds om die nuwe beginsels
aan te pas en te implementeer en word die ontwikkelingsdoelwitte in munisipaliteite oral in
die land nog steeds nie doeltreffend aangespreek nie.
Ten einde ’n grondslag daar te stel vir die assessering van die uitdagings en tekortkominge
in die huidige Suid-Afrikaanse beplanningstelsel, bespreek hierdie artikel die kenmerke
van die (nuwe) transformerende beplanningstelsel en word daar gekyk na enkele van
die belangrikste pogings wat op beleidsvlak en in die praktyk aangewend word om die
toepassing van die nuwe beginsels te bevorder.
Die artikel ondersoek die tekortkominge in die beplanningstelsel in ’n poging om enkele
voorstelle te maak oor hoe dié tekortkominge reggestel kan word.
Mo Afrika-Borwa, tshepetšo ya phetošo ya mmušo, yeo gabotse e thomilego ka 1994 ga se
ya tšweletša temokrasi e mpsha, pušo e mpsha goba ‘Afrika-Borwa e mpsha’ fela, eupša e hlotše phetogo ye kgolo, ya bohlokwa, ya
ka pela ya pušoselegae mo Afrika-Borwa
gammogo le phetogo ye kaonekaone ya
peakanyo ya setoropo.
Go thoma magareng go iša mafelelong a
1990, go gatilwe dikgato tše kgolo mo
Afrika-Borwa ke ba Mmušo, ditheo tša
peakanyo le babeakanyi go tšweletša
mokgwa wa maleba wa peakanyo
ya tlhabollo wa go swarelela le wa
togamaano, temokrasi, tlhabollo,
togagano – go ya ka dikokwane tša
peakanyo tša boditšhabatšhaba le nepišo
yeo e rotogago ya Mmušo wo moswa wa
Afrika-Borwa ya temokrasi.
Lehono, morago ga mengwagasome ya
go nyaka go ba ye mebedi, mokgwa wa
peakanyo ya mmasepala wa Afrika-Borwa,
le ge go na le maiteko le dihlabollo tša
dipholisi tša go fapafapana, o sa šitwa go
fetogela go le go phethagatša dikokwane
tše di swa gomme ga o šogane gabotse
le dinepo tša tlhabollo ka mahlakoreng ka
moka a naga.
Go tšweletša mekgwa ya go ela ditlhohlo
le go rarolla mathata ka gare ga mokgwa
wa bjale wa peakanyo wa Afrika-Borwa,
sengwalwa se se ahlaahla dika tša
mokgwa wa peakanyo (wo moswa) wo o
fetogago le go lekola dikgato tše dingwe
tše bohlokwahlokwa tšeo di dirwago
maemong a pholisi le phethagatšong go
godiša dikokwane tše di swa.
Sengwalwa se tšweletša dipotšišo mabapi
le mathata ka gare ga mokgwa wa
peakanyo ka maikemišetšo a go tla ka
dikakanyo tša go rarolla mathata a.
