The underlying objective of the Urban Renewal Programme is to ensure that the programmes of the South African government on poverty alleviation, economic growth and environmental sustainability are implemented in an integrated manner. It is intended that they act as models for integrated governance in the future provision of government services. Eight urban renewal nodes have been identified and are located in five provinces. They have diverse needs and priorities, but they do provide major opportunities for piloting development approaches that may be replicated more broadly.
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BUFFALO City's Mdantsane Urban Renewal Project will use the R130-million it received from the European Union to speed up some of the projects aimed at changing the face of the township.
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As part the Urban Renewal Programme's campaign to clean and beautify Mdantsane, Buffalo City municipal workers, aided by unemployed residents, have started clearing the township's cemetery in NU 1.
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DESPITE complicated political and socio-economic conditions on the ground, the Duncan Village Redevelopment Initiative will succeed. This is the word of Councillor Luleka Simon, who spoke to a Van Der Leij Foundation annual general meeting in Holland on Tuesday, 18 October.
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THE Inyathi Buffalo Route is finally open to ramblers. To celebrate World Tourism Day, Buffalo City launched the much-anticipated route at the East London City Hall on Tuesday, 27 September.
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When Buffalo City Councillor Sizwe Dikimolo visited local tertiary institutions to ask students to design a logo for the R1-billion Mdantsane Urban Renewal Project, he asked them to capture everything the township had to offer.
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CONSTRUCTION of the first phase of a R4-million project to refurbish the Mdantsane Highway Rank is under way.
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The transport system in the impoverished township of Mdantsane is set to undergo an overhaul as the Mdantsane Urban Renewal Programme gets underway.
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Launched in October last year, the R1-billion Mdantsane Urban Renewal Project is making good on its promise to change the face of the underprivileged township.
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A GROUP of 12 unemployed residents of NU1 Mdantsane are expecting to reap rich rewards after a donation secured by a local councillor enabled them to set up a community garden.
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