CAPITAL: The Voice of Business Issue 1, 2015 | Page 46

An artist’s impression of the urban beautification project around the Pietermaritzburg city hall. GRAPHIC: Supplied.
• poor roads infrastructure;
• poor transportation planning, road
traffic signage and signals;
• unregulated parking management;
• unreliable electricity power supply;
• non-working street lights
compromising safety and security;
• lack of city beautification and
landscaping (public spaces and parks);
• poor waste management;
• unregulated informal trading;
• unregulated outdoor advertising
management; and
• a growing number of children living on
the streets and vagrants.
Jackson-Plaatjies said that a number of
initiatives, funded with an amount of
R14,5 million from COGTA, have already
been successfully implemented in the city,
including:

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• the launch of the Msunduzi Informal
Economy Chamber;
• management of outdoor advertising,
which started in November 2012 and is
now being properly regulated to generate increased municipal revenue;
• an
ongoing
pothole-replacement
programme and regular road marking;
• the implementation of a regulated
parking management system in the city
centre;
• the first phase of solar street light
installation, between Chief Albert
Luthuli Road and Boshoff Street;
• the employment of approximately 40
traffic wardens for traffic management
enforcement;
• the employment of 150 Expanded Public
Works Programme (EPWP) workers to
improve waste management in the city;