In their essence Local Economic Development (LED) and Integrated
Development Plan (IDP) were designed to policy options for municipalities to
meet their constitutional obligations of enhancing socio-economic development of
communities. The LED in Mafikeng Local Municipality (MLM) is designed to
enhance socio-economic development of the MLM community through focusing
on job creation to fight and alleviate poverty in the municipality. This dissertation
reviews the LED policy of the MLM and reviews the two projects which are
namely the ltlhabolole Waste Management and Vegetable project and Mmabatho
Youth Development Cooperative (MYDC) (car wash) project in the context of the
LED policy of the MLM.
The dissertation critically analyses the strategies and programmes put in place by
the MLM to implement these two initiatives projects. Questions on whether the
MLM involves other stakeholders in the planning and implementation of LED and
what are the challenges encountered by the MLM in the implementation of its
LED projects and whether those projects are sustainable or not, are answered in
this dissertation. This dissertation discovers that both the ltlhabolole Waste
Management and Vegetable project and Mmabatho Youth Development
Cooperative (MYDC) have achieved one of the core objectives of LED which is
job creation, despite the fact that only an insignificant number of people are
employed in these projects.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:netd.ac.za/oai:union.ndltd.org:nwu/oai:dspace.nwu.ac.za:10394/15786 |
| Date | January 2011 |
| Creators | Ngwana, Matome Floyd |
| Source Sets | South African National ETD Portal |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Thesis |
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