Electricity Service Delivery Plan.

Please note that this is not the final ESDP.

1 INTRODUCTION

1.1 Background to the Electricity Service Delivery Plan

The electricity industry is in the process of being entirely transformed in South Africa. This process commenced with the initiation of majority representative government in 1994. Eskom generates 98% of all electricity used in South Africa and do the transmission of 100%. Eskom also distributes 60% of electrical energy to 40% of customers in South Africa. Clearly Eskom performs a large function in this sector. The remaining function is performed by 415 Municipalities who distribute 40% of the electrical energy to 60% of consumers in South Africa. This situation resulted in fragmentation, viability problems (defaulting on Eskom bulk payments), multiplicity of tariffs, revenue collection problems, etc. in the Electricity Distribution Industry. Restructuring seemed necessary to gain efficiency.

The Amajuba District Municipality appointed Kwezi V3 to undertake the preparation of three Sector Plans for each of the three local Municipalities in the Amajuba District Municipality’s Area. The appointment for Integrated Waste Management Planning was only for Phase 1, the Status Quo investigation together with a guideline document for Municipal officials and an investigation on the potential for waste minimisation and recycling and the potential alternatives to the current treatment and disposal regime. Quotes had to be submitted for the second phase, the compilation of an Integrated Waste Management Master Plan. KV3 was subsequently awarded the contract.
The IWMP had to address the following:
• Relevant Legislation.
• A Gaps and Needs Analysis.
• A Waste Generation Model.
• Economic Analysis of Options concerning Landfill Sites.
• Collection Needs.
• Waste Transportation and Waste Transfer Needs.
• Identifying Recycling and Re-use Initiatives.
• Formulate a programme for the implementation of a Waste Information System, Capacity Building and possible Job Creation where applicable.
• Development of Goals and Objectives.
• Develop an Implementation Programme and Implementation Budget.
This is a draft report and contains the information as set out above and as agreed in the Terms of Reference. The information in the Status Quo, which was the first phase of the study, was used as basis to compile this Master Plan.

Water services development plan attached.

The purpose of Chapter 2 – IDP and WSDP goals is to provide the organization’s long term direction and desired state for water services provisioning within the Amajuba Water Services Authority.

“To comply with the Water Services Act, the WSDP should be prepared as part of the IDP process unless there is no IDP process in which case it can be prepared separately. The WSDP is a sectoral plan that falls within the inter-sectoral umbrella plan of the IDP”. (WSDP Guidelines) The Amajuba IDP process is presently not aligned with the WSDP process, however, this chapter aims to orient the water services development goals against the overall goals of the IDP. It is proposed that the WSDP will be aligned with the next cycle / revision of the IDP.

The strategies developed as part of the WSDP has been based on the IDP vision, priority issues and objectives in terms of addressing the when, who, what, etc. Should it be found that insufficient resources are available to support the strategy, the IDP priority issues and objectives would have to be reconsidered.

Below are all the files related to Amajuba District Municipality's public transport plan.

After December 2000 elections, South Africa saw the establishment of Water Services Authorities throughout the country in terms Water Services Act, Act No 108, 1997. The WSAs were to take over some of the functions that were done by the Department of Water Affairs and Forestry. In 2002, EThekwini Metro and the 10 District Municipalities within KwaZulu Natal were officially given the status of WSA and the ADM is one of those districts.

A year later, 2003, three local municipalities were also give the same status of WSA and those municipalities are Umsunduzi within Umgungundlovu DM, Newcastle within Amajuba DM and UMhlathuzi within Uthungulu DM. When Newcastle Local Municipality was given the status of WSA that meant ADM would be a Water Services Authority for 2 local municipalities i.e. Utrecht and Dannhauser. The Water Services Authorities have constitutional obligation of providing water and sanitation within their area of jurisdiction.