Client: Department of Land Affairs (DLA)
Project Lead: Lize Malan
Project Brief: The DLA has embarked on a new course to manage land reform in the country; the 'Area Based Land Sector Plan' was developed to effect this change. Land reform is a sensitive development issue and faced with the difficulty of finding suitable land for emerging farmers, commercial agriculture as well as rural housing. MCA approached the challenge through engaging the farmer's unions and communities of in the Cape Winelands. This enabled those with first hand knowledge of land in the area to pool information about land, thereby reducing the transaction cost of land identification and aquisition.

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CWABP  [10.76MB]

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Relevance of Spatial Planning interventions in Reducing Poverty and Marginalisation in South African Townships  [111.49KB]

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Conceptualising, Defining and Understanding the Concept of Poverty  [180.90KB]

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Guidelines for the Development of CBD's in Townships in SA  [216.30KB]

Act Global to Live Local

20 July 2006

This paper turns the old adage, "Think Global, Act Local" on its head. It evaluates the different levels of action for sustainability - from the local through to the global. It argues that at a local, household, building, even neighbourhood, level, the technology, knowledge and means exist to create sustainable communities. Moreover, it argues that living and working in this paradigm is a far more effective means of creating truly democratic (equitable) and employed (economically viable) societies.,

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Act Global to Live Local  [114.44KB]

Client: City of Johannesburg: Department of Economic Development
Project Lead: Cecil Madell incorporating MCA and Grant Thornton (GT)
Project Brief: MCA together with GT were requested by a leading African metropolis to provide a strategy for its department of economic development. The team employed GIS tools, economic analysis and incorporated spatial planning principles to deliver a unique product in a challenging environment.

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COJ DED Strategy  [4.86MB]

Client: Swartland Municipality
Project Lead: Cecil Madell
Project Brief: MCA was appointed to develop a local economic development strategy for the municipality. The brief included conducting an economic evaluation and identitying key challenges, formulating economic development strategies and an implementation framework and creating a monitoring and evaluation framework. The Swartland LED strategy won an award for the best LED strategy in the Western Cape.

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Swartland LED Strategy  [1.24MB]

Client: Drakenstein Municipality
Project Lead: Taryn Elliot
Project Brief: As part of a tourism related LED project the municipality gave the go-ahead to fund a hiking and biking trail. The project was unique in that it was community owned and led adding the social dimension to a technical task; also the use of imagery from google earth to map out the contours and natural features of the site and trail was a key value add to the project.

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Saron Trail Final Report  [8.76MB]

Client: Ugu District Municipality
Project Lead: Cecil Madell
Project Brief: The aim of the project was to develop a business plan using 'regional management' as a unique approach for achieving IDP goals and objectives. Developing the product involved a range of methods which included primary and secondary research, seminars and workshops as well as a visit to Curitiba, Parana State and Rio de Janeiro areas, each considered best practice case studies.

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Ugu Regional Management Business Plan  [486.96KB]

The second draft Zoning Scheme document is available for public comment from the 25th of April 2008 to the 9th of June 2008. Comments should be directed to Ms Dalene Stapelberg at the Cape Agulhas Municipality – Tel 028 425 1919 or email: dalenes@capeagulhas.com

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CAM Scheme April '08  [2.23MB]

Die tweede konsep Soneringskema is beskikbaar vir kommentaar vanaf die 25ste April 2008 tot die 9de Junie 2008. Kommentaar moet gerig word aan Me. Dalene Stapelberg by die Munisipaliteit Kaap Agulhas – Tel 028 425 1919 of e-pos dalenes@capeagulhas.com

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KAM SKEMA April 2008  [1.81MB]

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Rural Areas - CAM_A0_APRIL  [10.62MB]
L'Agulhas and Struisbaai  [21.26MB]
Waenhuiskrans/Arniston  [4.78MB]
Napier A0  [8.32MB]
Klipdale A3  [1.30MB]
Protem A3  [1.20MB]
Bredasdorp  [21.01MB]
Suiderstrand A3  [2.58MB]