Development Plan

Integrated
The implementation plan, in turn, focuses on only those key strategic programmes, projects and initiatives that
are critical to support the achievement of the strategic priorities during the current five-year term of office. The
implementation plan also sets out which City departments are accountable for each programme.

Vision
This new term-of-office IDP will ensure that the City addresses what is not working, and continues to serve
its residents and support the growth of Cape Town to make the Mother City a City of Hope for all.

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OTHER STRATEGIES
AND STRATEGIC POLICIES

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DEPARTMENTAL BRANCH MONITORING
AMENDMENTS (SDBIPs) BUSINESS PLANS AND EVALUATION

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IMPLEMENTATION ANNUAL REPORT

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2. VISION

Vision
A CITY OF HOPE FOR ALL
The people of South Africa have overcome the injustice and oppression of apartheid,

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only to have many residents suffer under the twin oppressions of poverty and the

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fear of violent crime.

Our vision is for Cape Town to be a City of Hope for all – a prosperous, inclusive
and healthy city where people can see their hopes of a better future for
themselves, their children and their community become a reality. As the city
government, we are focused on creating the conditions for meaningfully faster

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economic growth, resulting in more Capetonians lifting themselves out of poverty.
Everything we do over the next five years will be geared towards this outcome.

Cape Town will be a tangible demonstration of what is possible in South Africa if

we work together – and living proof that South African cities can be places where
people’s life chances steadily improve and poverty is overcome. A city where each

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resident can feel secure in the knowledge that their city government is capable and
accountable to deliver on the basics. A city built on good governance, where the

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economy can thrive and bring investment and jobs, without being weighed down
by public infrastructure failure and corruption.

To turn Cape Town into South Africa’s City of Hope, the City must provide the

& operational plans

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foundation necessary to improve people’s life chances. We must use the public
resources entrusted to us to co-create a city that is more caring, more inclusive,
more prosperous, more united, more respectful, more safe and more free.

The following diagram shows the focus areas of the City over the next five years.
The City will focus on six priorities, the most important of which is economic growth
to reduce poverty. These priorities will rest on three foundations essential to realise
‘A City of Hope’.
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City of Cape Town vision CITY
OF HOPE

ECONOMIC
GROWTH
BASIC
SAFETY SERVICES

3 top-tier priorities
3 secondary priorities

Programmes that deliver on PUBLIC SPACE,

the City’s priority outcomes HOUSING ENVIRONMENT TRANSPORT
in support of its vision AND AMENITIES

A RESILIENT CITY

3 foundations A MORE SPATIALLY INTEGRATED AND INCLUSIVE CITY

Programmes that
support the delivery
of the 6 priorities A CAPABLE AND COLLABORATIVE CITY GOVERNMENT

The IDP strategic plan, comprising priorities and foundations that all support
the vision of creating a City of Hope

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ECONOMIC GROWTH: The guiding TRANSPORT: Efficient and sustainable
priority for everything the City does public transport and quality road networks
is to support meaningfully faster are key enablers to businesses, workers
economic growth that enables people and job seekers. A city that is better
to lift themselves out of poverty. Economic growth is connected will be more productive and create more

Vision
needed to rekindle our hope in a more prosperous economic opportunities. We will work to make it safer
future for all. and cheaper for all people to travel, increasing their
freedom to enjoy all that our city has to offer. We
BASIC SERVICES: Economic growth is will also work to change the dysfunctional nationally
dependent on the City doing the basics managed passenger rail system so that Cape Town
well. The City is committed to doing all can have a greater role in running a train system that
it can to protect Cape Town’s economy works. Our city must be built on the right foundations

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from the worst effects of failing national government if we are to succeed in becoming a City of Hope. These

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services. Ending load-shedding over time is a key foundations are essential to achieving a prosperous,
focus. Securing a reliable supply of water in the sustainable and inclusive city in the long term.
future and providing quality sanitation and refuse
collection services are essential to enable a life of A RESILIENT CITY that meets its
hope and dignity to communities. resource needs sustainably, responds to
climate change and is able to withstand
SAFETY: Crime causes people to live disaster events. The most significant way

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with constant fear and anxiety. This is a to increase the resilience of Cape Town’s communities
terrible form of oppression. No one can is to reduce poverty, being the primary driver of
be free so long as this level of violent household vulnerability to shocks.
crime persists. Crime also chases away investment
and economic activity. This is stealing our hope for A MORE SPATIALLY INTEGRATED AND
a better future. Making Cape Town a city where all INCLUSIVE CITY, where people have
people can live with less fear of crime and violence more equitable access to economic

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requires collective action at scale, where government, opportunities and social amenities,
the private sector and residents work together to and the barriers to inclusion and well-being are

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make communities safer. reduced. The City is committed to investing in public
infrastructure to address the injustice of apartheid
HOUSING: The lack of adequate housing spatial planning.
is an urgent concern that affects the
city’s health and well-being, and slows A CAPABLE AND COLLABORATIVE

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down efforts to unstitch the legacy of CITY GOVERNMENT, which is modernised,

Statutory, strategic
apartheid spatial planning. The City must do everything financially healthy, administratively efficient,
it can to support the accelerated building of homes, innovative and future-focused. A city
both formal and informal, by the private sector to government that empowers residents to contribute
ensure adequate supply of housing to meet the needs to decision making and is a collaborative and reliable
of Capetonians. partner to other government entities, residents and
businesses in addressing persistent urban challenges.
PUBLIC SPACE, ENVIRONMENT A city government that consistently fights for the needs
AND AMENITIES: Maintaining a of residents, even when the responsibility
quality environment, public spaces to meet those needs rests with the
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and waterways helps to make our city national or provincial government

healthier, more liveable, more attractive and more or a state-owned enterprise.
resilient. We will work with communities to keep our
city clean so that Cape Town is a place that its people
take pride in and its visitors love to return to.
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land, and the development of regulations and
regulatory processes that enable a more inclusive

WORK TO REDUCE
and integrated city, and help businesses start
and grow. The City is dedicating resources to

BARRIERS AND
communities where the lack of safety is a particularly
acute barrier to opportunity. The programmes and

CREATE PATHWAYS
initiatives in this plan show how the City will drive
greater economic participation to ensure that the

FOR HOPE
benefits of economic growth are felt by as many
residents as possible and lead to opportunities
and hope for the future.
Everything the City does over the next five years
will be focused on enabling meaningfully faster A safer city with more employment opportunities,
economic growth so that more Capetonians can lift more housing opportunities, quality public spaces,
themselves out of poverty. Growth is essential for reliable basic services, and safe, efficient transport
creating the number of job opportunities needed options will particularly benefit women, who still
and sustaining quality basic services. But too many carry the bulk of caring responsibilities.
people in Cape Town face barriers to participating
in the city’s economy and taking up opportunities. In addition to actively reducing the barriers to
economic participation and opportunity, the City
There are a number of ways that the City can will partner with other spheres of government who
reduce these barriers and create pathways to can have an impact on reducing key barriers. This
greater economic participation and social mobility. includes, for example, partnering with Western
The most important of these is through how and Cape Government on health, education and early
where it invests in public infrastructure, enabling childhood development; and supporting National
a significant increase in housing provision by the Government programmes on skills development
private sector, the use and release of City-owned and support for entrepreneurs.

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