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Our African City
ADVANCING
A
collaborative initiative between the public and private sector is set to advance
integrated urban development in Africa.
Aurecon, in partnership with PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) and the South
African Local Government Association (SALGA) officially launched the Our
African City dialogue at the Institute of Municipal Engineering of Southern
Africa (IMESA) conference in Cape Town on October 28, 2015.
Lulu Gwagwa, Chair of Aurecon RSA Board, says that in pursuit of being future
ready, Aurecon with its partners, commit to being at the forefront of shaping
Africa’s destiny through transformation, innovation and advancing the African agenda.
According to Abbas Jamie Aurecon’s Market Director for Government and Transport, Our
African Cities is a dialogue on inclusive transformation that intends to craft a vision of what
future African cities should look like. “We believe that the private sector needs to partner with
and support local government in its role of developing world class African Cities. We have thus
initiated this dialogue with the intention of aligning the private sector with the Integrated
Urban Development Framework (IUDF) document that will shortly be released by the
Department of Cooperative Government and Traditional Affairs (COGTA).”
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Abbas Jamie