Making Joburg a liveable city
COLLECTION of about 40 residents, City officials and the member of the mayoral committee for housing, Dan Bovu, put their heads together at a roundtable discussion on how to make Johannesburg a more liveable city as part of the Growth and Development Strategy (GDS) outreach.The session, hosted at the Johannesburg Zoo on 4 August, marked the beginning of the participation process of the GDS, which comprises nine themes: liveable cities, resource sustainability, health and poverty, governance, transport, community safety, environment, economic growth and smart cities.
Each theme has a dedicated week set aside to facilitate discussion with residents and stakeholders. Liveable cities kicks off the themed weeks on 10 August, and the roundtable served as a precursor to next week’s activities.
Bovu opened the discussion by asking: how do you build a liveable city?
“This is why we have called on academics and professionals, among others, to assist the family of housing, planning and community development in sharing concepts.”
These concepts would include issues of social housing, amenities and public transport. “We are responsible for running the city,” he said, “but we can’t do it alone.”
By opening up the next nine weeks for Joburgers to add their input, Bovu believes the City will be better placed to do away with the classical social model of living, where people existing on the periphery get nothing.
This is where contributions from those who live in the city are so valuable; residents can let the City know exactly where it is going wrong and what it can fix.
Walter Melato, the executive director of the housing department, further examined ways of making Joburg more liveable through the GDS. “The GDS is a living document to reach our end goals and long-term vision with co-ordinated operational plans,” he said.
Joburg’s GDS was born in unison with its five-year Integrated Development Plan (IDP) in 2006 to steer the political term of office. It is positioned to sit alongside and complement the IDP, but serves as a marker for focus areas in order to accelerate economic growth and human development.
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A UN rights envoy attended Myanmar’s parliament and met senior regime figures on Tuesday as authorities allowed him to visit the country for the first time in more than a year.
Tomas Ojea Quintana, the UN special rapporteur on human rights in Myanmar, spent the third day of his trip in the capital Naypyidaw before heading to Yangon where he is due to hold talks with democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi on Wednesday, a government official said.
It will be the first time the envoy has met the Nobel laureate, who was under house arrest during his last visit in February 2010, and comes as the government appears to be keen to improve its international image.
He will also visit the city’s notorious Insein prison, which is believed to house some of the country’s around 2,000 political prisoners.
A civilian administration is now nominally in charge of Myanmar but its ranks are dominated by former generals.
The international community has called for a number of reforms in Myanmar including the release of political prisoners.
Quintana angered Myanmar’s ruling generals last year by suggesting that human rights violations in the country may amount to crimes against humanity and could warrant a UN inquiry.
He has since been refused visas to visit several times.
His visit comes after Suu Kyi met with President Thein Sein on Friday in the highest-level discussions with the authorities since her release.
The UN envoy, who arrived in the country on Sunday, observed parliamentary meetings in Naypyidaw and met the speakers from both houses on Tuesday.
Reports in state media said he held talks with senior figures on Monday, including labour minister Aung Kyi, who was at the forefront of renewed dialogue with Suu Kyi.
The 66-year-old’s release by the junta after seven straight years of house arrest came just days after a November election that was marred by allegations of cheating and which was won by the military’s political proxies.
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