Date: 16/02/2004
Source: Western Cape Provincial Government
Title: C Dowry: Opening of municipal management trainee course, Bellville
EXTRACTS FROM A SPEECH BY COBUS DOWRY, MINISTER OF LOCAL GOVERNMENT, OPENING A MUNICIPAL MANAGEMENT TRAINEE COURSE AT BELLVILLE, UNIVERSITY OF STELLENBOSCH, 16 February 2004
TRAINING INTERVENTION FOR MUNICIPAL MANAGEMENT TRAINEES - CHANGING THE AGENDA OF LOCAL GOVERNMENT TO DEVELOPMENTAL LOCAL GOVERNMENT
The Department of Local Government in the Western Cape as part of our mandate to strengthen, monitor and capacitate local government with focus on developmental local government, has now embarked on an exciting new venture to level the playing fields at middle to senior management level at municipalities.
The next couple of months will see extensive training aimed at management of municipalities. The target groups for these training courses have been identified as, female middle/senior level municipal officials, municipal management trainees and potential municipal management trainees aimed at demographic representivity in the commitment to the transformation of local government.
In an attempt to foster necessary skills, the first of a series of training sessions, in conjunction with the University of Stellenbosch have already commenced on Monday, 2 February at Bellville, aimed at female middle and senior level municipal officials. My Department has, since this programme has started, received numerous enquiries, also from the general public and a repeat of the 5 day training course will be done in May in George.
The course content will include Management and Policy Making, Diversity Management, Administrative Law for local government, Performance Management, Management Functions, Techniques and Skills and Municipal Financial Management Legislation.
In order to ensure representivity at senior management level a training intervention for municipal management trainees start today and will be a 3 month course.
To ensure that business approaches, structures, systems and practises as demanded by developmental local government are achieved, we need to acknowledge and foster the power residing within all our communities to create opportunities for change. Through these training courses, our aim is to make senior management representative of the Western demography and to enable you sitting here today to ultimately become executive municipal managers. There are challenging times ahead, which will change the agenda of local government. It is in our common interest that we achieve representivity and gender equality at senior management level. With these training interventions the Western Cape has taken the responsibility to ensure that this goal is achieved.
Deur 'n groter poel van kundigheid te skep waaruit daar in die toekoms getap kan word wanneer aanstellings gedoen word, tree die Provinsiale Regering van die Wes-Kaap pro-aktief op.
Meeste senior aanstellings op munisipale vlak is op termynkontrak en wanneer hierdie kontrakte verstryk is munisipaliteite aangewese op bestaande personeel of om wyd te gaan soek na geskikte kandidate vir 'n bepaalde pos.
Dit moet egter in gedagte gehou word dat Munisipaliteite ooreenkomstig die "Wet op gelyke Indiensname" toepaslike stelsels en prosedures moet ontwikkel en aannneem ten einde billike, doeltreffende, effektiewe en deursigtige personeeladministrasie te verseker. Juis om munisipaliteite in staat te stel om dit te bereik tree hierdie departement pro-aktief op en word meer mense die geleentheid gegun om op gelyke vlak aansoek te doen vir 'n bepaalde pos.
We are changing the agenda of local government to developmental local government. My department is extremely pleased with the ability of the municipalities in the Western Cape to entrench integrated development planning as a new way of doing strategic planning within our communities. This was achieved during a difficult period of transformation and restructuring of new municipal entities. Municipalities in the Western Cape have shown their commitment to thinking strategically about the use of their resources and engaging their communities to ensure better service delivery for all. The successes and lessons learned during the drafting of integrated development plans in the Western Cape have laid a solid foundation on which to build developmental local government. Indeed, partnerships between the spheres of government and major service providers are not an option, but a necessity to achieve truly developmental local government.
Since the 5th of December 2000, municipalities have been on a challenging journey towards this sometimes-elusive objective of being truly developmental. A key instrument in focussing our energy on this journey is the municipal integrated development plan. We not only see its value in guiding the core business of the municipality, but in its ability to inform how other spheres of government, service providers and economic role-players focus their respective energies in mutual support of municipal development initiatives.
Municipalities in the Western Cape are now able to create new structures to engage with their communities, identify key development challenges, quantify service backlogs and shape new development interventions and projects. These achievements have started to inform key budget decisions and bode well for entrenching truly developmental local government in our province. This is the key to our common efforts and is reflected in my Ministry and Department's Vision, which is "Developmental Local Government through Partnerships and Co-responsibility".
Developmental Local Government will mean that we have to change the way we do things. We have to change our narrow visions; we have to change perceptions and fixed ideas. We must not be afraid to tackle new challenges head-on. We as spheres of government must not limit ourselves to competencies given to us by the constitution or by Acts. By doing this, we will indeed improve our systems and we will become developmental in our approach.
In starting with your training you might have the opportunity to make a direct difference in the lives of millions of people. My call on you today is to grab this opportunity with both hands, to make a success and to become part of the challenging future, which lies ahead.
Enquiries: Jan Bosman
Ministry of Local Government
Tel: Direct (021) 483 4798 or Office (021) 483 4466
Fax: (021) 483 3888
Cell: 083 7755 312
E-mail: jbosman@pawc.wcape.gov.za
Issued by: Ministry of Local Government, Western Cape Provincial Government
16 February 2004
Source: Western Cape Provincial Government
Title: C Dowry: Opening of municipal management trainee course, Bellville
EXTRACTS FROM A SPEECH BY COBUS DOWRY, MINISTER OF LOCAL GOVERNMENT, OPENING A MUNICIPAL MANAGEMENT TRAINEE COURSE AT BELLVILLE, UNIVERSITY OF STELLENBOSCH, 16 February 2004
TRAINING INTERVENTION FOR MUNICIPAL MANAGEMENT TRAINEES - CHANGING THE AGENDA OF LOCAL GOVERNMENT TO DEVELOPMENTAL LOCAL GOVERNMENT
The Department of Local Government in the Western Cape as part of our mandate to strengthen, monitor and capacitate local government with focus on developmental local government, has now embarked on an exciting new venture to level the playing fields at middle to senior management level at municipalities.
The next couple of months will see extensive training aimed at management of municipalities. The target groups for these training courses have been identified as, female middle/senior level municipal officials, municipal management trainees and potential municipal management trainees aimed at demographic representivity in the commitment to the transformation of local government.
In an attempt to foster necessary skills, the first of a series of training sessions, in conjunction with the University of Stellenbosch have already commenced on Monday, 2 February at Bellville, aimed at female middle and senior level municipal officials. My Department has, since this programme has started, received numerous enquiries, also from the general public and a repeat of the 5 day training course will be done in May in George.
The course content will include Management and Policy Making, Diversity Management, Administrative Law for local government, Performance Management, Management Functions, Techniques and Skills and Municipal Financial Management Legislation.
In order to ensure representivity at senior management level a training intervention for municipal management trainees start today and will be a 3 month course.
To ensure that business approaches, structures, systems and practises as demanded by developmental local government are achieved, we need to acknowledge and foster the power residing within all our communities to create opportunities for change. Through these training courses, our aim is to make senior management representative of the Western demography and to enable you sitting here today to ultimately become executive municipal managers. There are challenging times ahead, which will change the agenda of local government. It is in our common interest that we achieve representivity and gender equality at senior management level. With these training interventions the Western Cape has taken the responsibility to ensure that this goal is achieved.
Deur 'n groter poel van kundigheid te skep waaruit daar in die toekoms getap kan word wanneer aanstellings gedoen word, tree die Provinsiale Regering van die Wes-Kaap pro-aktief op.
Meeste senior aanstellings op munisipale vlak is op termynkontrak en wanneer hierdie kontrakte verstryk is munisipaliteite aangewese op bestaande personeel of om wyd te gaan soek na geskikte kandidate vir 'n bepaalde pos.
Dit moet egter in gedagte gehou word dat Munisipaliteite ooreenkomstig die "Wet op gelyke Indiensname" toepaslike stelsels en prosedures moet ontwikkel en aannneem ten einde billike, doeltreffende, effektiewe en deursigtige personeeladministrasie te verseker. Juis om munisipaliteite in staat te stel om dit te bereik tree hierdie departement pro-aktief op en word meer mense die geleentheid gegun om op gelyke vlak aansoek te doen vir 'n bepaalde pos.
We are changing the agenda of local government to developmental local government. My department is extremely pleased with the ability of the municipalities in the Western Cape to entrench integrated development planning as a new way of doing strategic planning within our communities. This was achieved during a difficult period of transformation and restructuring of new municipal entities. Municipalities in the Western Cape have shown their commitment to thinking strategically about the use of their resources and engaging their communities to ensure better service delivery for all. The successes and lessons learned during the drafting of integrated development plans in the Western Cape have laid a solid foundation on which to build developmental local government. Indeed, partnerships between the spheres of government and major service providers are not an option, but a necessity to achieve truly developmental local government.
Since the 5th of December 2000, municipalities have been on a challenging journey towards this sometimes-elusive objective of being truly developmental. A key instrument in focussing our energy on this journey is the municipal integrated development plan. We not only see its value in guiding the core business of the municipality, but in its ability to inform how other spheres of government, service providers and economic role-players focus their respective energies in mutual support of municipal development initiatives.
Municipalities in the Western Cape are now able to create new structures to engage with their communities, identify key development challenges, quantify service backlogs and shape new development interventions and projects. These achievements have started to inform key budget decisions and bode well for entrenching truly developmental local government in our province. This is the key to our common efforts and is reflected in my Ministry and Department's Vision, which is "Developmental Local Government through Partnerships and Co-responsibility".
Developmental Local Government will mean that we have to change the way we do things. We have to change our narrow visions; we have to change perceptions and fixed ideas. We must not be afraid to tackle new challenges head-on. We as spheres of government must not limit ourselves to competencies given to us by the constitution or by Acts. By doing this, we will indeed improve our systems and we will become developmental in our approach.
In starting with your training you might have the opportunity to make a direct difference in the lives of millions of people. My call on you today is to grab this opportunity with both hands, to make a success and to become part of the challenging future, which lies ahead.
Enquiries: Jan Bosman
Ministry of Local Government
Tel: Direct (021) 483 4798 or Office (021) 483 4466
Fax: (021) 483 3888
Cell: 083 7755 312
E-mail: jbosman@pawc.wcape.gov.za
Issued by: Ministry of Local Government, Western Cape Provincial Government
16 February 2004
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