We provide strategy and policy support for infrastructure development
- We lead the WCG’s Vision Inspired Priority 4: Mobility and Spatial Transformation while playing an active role in the Growth for Jobs priority of the Western Cape Recovery Plan.
- This includes responding to the climate change imperative and focusing on renewable energy infrastructure.
- We are becoming a purpose-driven organisation that places the well-being of citizens at the centre of all our service delivery through systemic spatial transformation over a 20-year timeframe.
We plan, design and deliver sustainable infrastructure
- We design sustainable education, health and general infrastructure projects so that they are ready for the tender process to begin.
- We deliver sustainable education, health and general infrastructure.
- We provide backup power and install new solar photovoltaic panels in certain WCG facilities.
We optimise access to public services through shared service delivery precincts
- We optimise public access to public services and the efficient use of public land and resources through planning precinct-level projects.
- We deliver sustainable human settlements and upgrade informal settlements
We develop sustainable human settlements.
- We focus on the 19 gazetted priority development areas (PDAs) as a catalyst for restructuring and revitalising towns and cities.
- We focus on social housing projects in the City of Cape Town and 11 leader towns, working with the Social Housing Regulatory Authority and social housing institutions.
- Our beneficiary selection process prioritises people in vulnerable groups such as the elderly, people with disabilities, people who have been on the waiting list for 15 years or more, backyard dwellers and approved military veterans.
We upgrade informal settlements through the Upgrading of Informal Settlements Programme (UISP).
- We explore the use of sustainable building technologies and a green building certifi cation system to optimise resource utilisation in the construction of houses.
- We help to settle disputes between landlords and tenants
- We intervene in disputes between landlords and tenants to promote stability in the rental housing sector.
- We facilitate, investigate, mediate and conduct dispute resolution processes through the Rental Housing Tribunal.
- We inform landlords and tenants about their rights and obligations.
- We intervene in instances where rental properties are not adequately maintained.
- We intervene in cases of unlawful seizure of possessions. Contact Centre: 0860 106 166; Please Call Me: 079 769 1207; SMS: Help to 31022; Email: rht.enquiries@westerncape.gov.za.
We enable spatial transformation through integrated development
- We promote spatial transformation through well-located, residentially led, mixed-use, mixed-income live-work-play-learn integrated development projects close to public transport. Current projects are Conradie Park in Pinelands, the Artscape/ Founders’ Garden development in central Cape Town, and the Vredenburg Urban Revitalisation Project.
We manage and maintain WCG-owned immovable assets (land and buildings)
- We provide accommodation facilities to WCG departments and provincial entities.
- We actively green the built environment through pursuing Green
- Building Council of South Africa certifi cation for qualifying WCG buildings.
- We optimise the utilisation, environmental sustainability and efficiency of accommodation and facilities, including energy performance certification.
- We undertake building condition assessments.
- We maintain, refurbish and renovate sustainable education, health and general infrastructure.
We provide access to professional training in critical skills
- Our Professional Development Programme (PDP) enables graduates in technical infrastructure fi elds to get the experience and additional training they need to become registered professionals in their fi elds.
- DOI enables professional staff to keep their registrations current by enabling them to meet continuing professional development (CPD) training requirements.
- Our Masakh’iSizwe Bursary Programme provides tertiary-level study bursaries for young people in scarce and critical technical infrastructure skills on a work-back basis. Bursars must work for the DOI for a year for every year they received study support.
- We support professional green building skills training provided by the Green Building Council of South Africa Academy. This complements work done to improve the effi ciency and environmental sustainability of our immovable asset portfolio.
- We create work opportunities through public works and transport infrastructure
- We create work opportunities through health, education, general infrastructure and transport infrastructure projects.
We plan, design, deliver and maintain transport infrastructure
- We support spatial transformation through the development of major road infrastructure projects such as the George Western Bypass, the completion of the R300 to the north, the Cape Town Integrator-Northern Growth Corridor, Saldanha Industrial Development Zone road network upgrades, and the Worcester Bypass.
- We help ensure that road infrastructure is safe and rideable for private motorists, road-based public transport, and commercial vehicles.
- We assess and comment on the impact on the proclaimed road
- network of land-use planning and development applications from municipalities.
- We undertake road asset management planning.
- We visually assess the condition of surfaced and gravel roads.
- We upgrade gravel roads to surfaced roads.
- We rehabilitate and reseal surfaced roads.
- We re-gravel and blade gravel roads.
- We blacktop-patch surfaced roads.
We help to make the Western Cape more energy-secure
- We mitigate the impact of climate change by supporting renewable energy in the Western Cape.
- We provide backup power and install new solar photovoltaic panels in certain WCG facilities.
- We support Western Cape municipalities to become more energysecure through the Municipal Independent Power Producer
- Project (MIPPP).
- We are establishing the feasibility of a Gas to Power project in the Western Cape.
- We are mapping the electricity grid to establish energy generation potential in the Western Cape.
We manage the Expanded Public Works Programme (EPWP) in the Western Cape
- We provide skills training interventions and apprenticeships for designated groups to add valuable skills to the economy and enable participants to become more employable.
- We provide technical and coordination support to public EPWP implementing bodies and institutional forums in the Western Cape and monitor their performance.
- We use the Empowerment Impact Assessment Tool and contract participation goals to measure the work and skills training impacts on communities of certain DOI projects costing more than R10m.
We develop emerging contractors and support economic empowerment
- We implement the Contractor Development Programme (CDP) in infrastructure projects.