About The Frances Baard District Municipality

Frances Goitsemang Baard

Background of the municipality

Our district is predominantly a mining and agricultural district, with a lot of potential yet unlocked. The climate is favorable for outdoor living with a great number of “sunny” days throughout the year.

Two of the largest rivers, the Vaal and the Harts, flow through our district. Our population has been estimated at 434 342 in Census 2022 and we have a reputation for being friendly and hospitable people in the Province of the Northern Cape.

The district comprises of four local municipalities. Kimberley, located in Sol Plaatje Municipality, is the capital of the province, and also the home of our head offices as a district municipality.

Frances Baard District Municipality is the smallest district in the Northern Cape; however, it accommodates the largest proportion of the population of the province.

About Our Council

Executive Mayor - Ms HU BudaSpeaker - Ms KC MothibiMunicipal Manager

HU Buda

Unondumiso was born in Kimberley on 07 September 1983 to parents Wellington and Siena (neè Buda). She matriculated from Tshireleco Secondary School in 2002. She enrolled for a course in Public Administration at Boston, made possible through Pioneer Consulting, and Local Government Law and Administration with Fort Hare University. She worked for the Department of Health as a G.A from 2012 to 2016. She then moved to the Ministry of Finance, Economic Development and Tourism, where I worked as a Registry Clerk until 2016. She became involved in politics in 2002 and was elected as branch secretary for three consecutive terms from 2004 – 2017. She was also the ANC Youth League secretary and in 2017 she was elected as the regional treasurer. In 2016 she was elected as a PR councillor at Sol Plaatje Local Municipality, where she was appointed as the Chairperson of the Municipal Public Accounts Committee (MPAC). She received an award for “Best performed ward committee member in 2004-2009”. In 2018 she was deployed to the Frances Baard District Municipality, where on 29 May 2018, she was elected at a Council meeting as the Speaker of the district municipality. On 03 December 2021 she was elected as the executive a member of the district municipality.

KC Mothibi

Keamogetse Cynthia “Sisi” Mothibi was born in Ulco a small town in the Frances Baard District in the Northern Cape. The town is located approximately 10 kilometers from the Vaal River. She started school at Ulco Primary school and finished matric at Pampierstad High school. She completed a Certificate in Community Development through Unisa and is currently studying towards her Bachelor of Public Administration through Mancosa. She started her political career at Cosas (Pampierstad High). She was the Treasurer of M.J. Mosala branch and also served as the secretary for M.J. Mosala branch and worked her way up to become the Deputy Chairperson of the same branch. She is an REC Member of the African National Congress and the RWC Member and Frances Baard Women’s League branch chairperson and is also the former ward secretary. She served as an MMC chairperson for Finance at FBDM and worked as a manager in the office of the mayor at Phokwane Municipality. She is the former regional member (African Peer Review Mechanism) and a former community development worker at COGHSTA. On 03 December 2021 she was elected as the Speaker of the Frances Baard District Municipality.

ZM Bogatsu

Mamikie Bogatsu has been involved in local government since 2004 and has been providing legal services to not only to the Department of Cooperative Governance, Human Settlements and Traditional Affairs (COGHSTA) but to all municipalities by providing legal opinions, drafting of legal instruments and assisting them in facilitating their legal actions and application. She was seconded by the MEC of COGHSTA as the acting Municipal Manager for Frances Baard District Municipality in January 2012. The Council of Frances Baard District Municipality appointed her as its Municipal Manager from 01 November 2012 for a period of 5 years. On 01 May 2018 Ms Bogatsu was re-appointed as Municipal Manager for another period of 5 years.

FBDM: Council Organogram

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About the Council

Executive Mayor: Cllr. HU Buda

Unondumiso was born in Kimberley on 07 September 1983 to parents Wellington and Siena (neè Buda) Pefile. She matriculated from Tshireleco Secondary School in 2002. She enrolled for a course in Public Administration at Boston, made possible through Pioneer Consulting, and Local Government Law and Administration with Fort Hare University. She worked for the Department of Health as a G.A from 2012 to 2016. She then moved to the Ministry of Finance, Economic Development and Tourism, where I worked as a Registry Clerk until 2016. She became involved in politics in 2002 and was elected as branch secretary for three consecutive terms from 2004 – 2017. She was also the ANC Youth League secretary and in 2017 she was elected as the regional treasurer. In 2016 she was elected as a PR councillor at Sol Plaatje Local Municipality, where she was appointed as the Chairperson of the Municipal Public Accounts Committee (MPAC). She received an award for “Best performed ward committee member in 2004-2009”. In 2018 she was deployed to the Frances Baard District Municipality, where on 29 May 2018, she was elected at a Council meeting as the Speaker of the district municipality. On 03 December 2021 she was elected as the executive a member of the district municipality.

Speaker: Cllr. KC Mothibi

Finance Committee: Cllr. I Ruiter

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Policy & Institutional Development: Cllr. LN Shushu

Nonyameko was born on 25 November 1976 in Kimberly as the first-born child of Paulus and Katiwe Shushu. She completed her matric at Tshireletso Senior Secondary School in 1998. In 2000 she enrolled for a diploma in nursing science at the Henrietta Stockdale Nursing College. In 2002 she furthered her studies by enrolling for a course in business studies at Northern Cape Technical College. She first became involved in politics in 1996 as an ordinary member of COSAS. Since then she held a number of leadership positions in the ANC, the Youth League, the Women’s League and the Civil Society movement. She was branch treasurer of the ANC Kimberley Central branch from 2000 to 2002. Before that she was branch secretary of the ANC Youth League, Kimberley Central branch from 1997 until 2000. She was re-elected as secretary of the Kopano Branch from 2000 until 2001. In 2001 she was also nominated to serve in the Frances Baard ANC Youth League Regional Task Team in preparation for congress after their disbandment. She was elected to serve in the Provincial committee of the ANC Youth League as deputy chairperson from 2002 until 2007. She also served in the Provincial South African Youth Council as a convener from 2002 until 2008. In 2012 she was elected as secretary of the Women’s League for the Kopano branch. In the same year she was elevated to deputy secretary of the Frances Baard Women’s League, a position she is still occupying to date. In the 2016 local government election she was nominated as a PR councillor of the Sol Plaatje Local Municipality and was seconded to Frances Baard District Municipality. In the 2021 local government election she was again nominated as a PR councillor of the Sol Plaatje Local Municipality and seconded to Frances Baard District Municipality. On 03 December 2021 she was elected as a member of the mayoral committee and the chairperson of the Planning and Development Committee at the district municipality.

Planning & Development Committee: Cllr. JD Tshekedi

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Social Development Committee: Cllr. OM Ditakgwe

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Infrastructure Development Committee: Cllr. ME Mokgatlhanyane

Motshabi Mokgatlanyane is the first born of Gadihele and Olebile Mokgatlhane. He completed Grade 10 at Boresetse high school in 2002. At the age of 16 he got involved in politics as a member of COSAS, YCL and ANCYL. At this very young age he was elected as a branch deputy chairperson of the YCL and held this position from 2004 to 2006. At his first place of work, Sonop Diamond Mine, he was elected as shop steward and a branch secretary of NUM from 2006 to 2009. In 2009 he was elected as the chairperson of the SACP for Mataleng branch and held this position until 2012. He was the branch secretary of the ANCYL from 2011 until 2014. In the same period, he was also elected as district executive committee member of SACP for the Kimberley District from 2012 until 2014. In May 2021 he was elected as an ANC Regional Executive Committee member. He served as a school governing body member at Barkly West Higher Primary School from 2013 until 2015. He has also served as a ward committee member at Magareng Municipality from 2012 until 2015. He is currently serving as a board member of the Barkly West ANC constituency since 2012 and as ANC branch secretary from 2014 to date. He was seconded to Frances Baard District Municipality and was elected as member of the mayoral committee and the chairperson of the Infrastructure Development Committee on 29 August 2016. On 03 December he was elected as a member of the mayoral committee and the chairperson of the Infrastructure Development Committee at the district municipality. He was also elected as an ANC Chiefwhip in FBDM and elected as a PEC member of SALGA Northern Cape.

Municipal Public Accounts Committee (MPAC): Cllr. K Molale

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MUNICIPAL MANAGER

Ziphorah “Mamikie” Bogatsu matriculated in 1995 at Baitshoki High School. She obtained her LLB degree in 2000 with the then University of Potchefstroom. Her career started in 2001 as a candidate attorney for the Potchefstroom Justice Centre, North West Province. In this capacity her responsibilities included inter alia: the provision of legal advice to clients on both criminal and civil matters, conducting both criminal and civil proceedings in the district and regional courts and the drafting of legal pleadings for court processes. After finishing her article of clerkship in 2003, she joined the then North West Department of Safety and Liaison as an Assistant Director Policing Priorities. Her local government and housing experience started in 2004 when she joined the then Department of Developmental Local Government and Housing in the North West as an Assistant Director: Constitutional and Legal Matters.

In 2006, she came to the Northern Cape as a Deputy Director Legal Service in the then Department of Local Government and Housing (now Department of Cooperative Governance, Human Settlements and Traditional Affairs) Later that year she was appointed Director responsible for Legal Services in the same epartment and in this capacity, has been at the fore of critical pieces of related legislation and provides constant support to local government and local government institutions on legal matters. Since she joined local government in 2004, she has been providing legal services to not only the department but to all municipalities by providing legal opinions, drafting of legal instruments and assisting them in facilitating their legal actions and application. She was then seconded by the MEC responsible for local government as the acting Municipal Manager for Frances Baard District Municipality in January 2012, after Council’s request to the MEC. The Council of Frances Baard District Municipality appointed her as its Municipal Manager from 01 November 2012 for a period of 5 years. On 01 May 2018 Ms Bogatsu was re-appointed as Municipal Manager for another period of 5 years. She was again appointed by Council on 01 January 2023 for a third term.

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Economic profile

Frances Baard District Municipality is the strongest economic region in the province, accounting for 36% of the provincial gross domestic product (PGDP). According to a 2007 Quantec Research report, within Frances Baard District Municipality, contribution to the regional GDP is dominated by Sol Plaatje (74%), Phokwane (15%), Dikgatlong (8%), Magareng (2%).

The economy of the district consists of the primary (agriculture and mining), secondary (manufacturing, electricity and construction) and tertiary (trade, transport, financial and social services) sectors.

Mandate

The municipality has a mandate to:

Provide a democratic and accountable government for local municipalities
Ensure the provision of services to communities in a sustainable manner
Promote a safe and healthy environment
Encourage the involvement of communities and community organisations in the matters of local government
The district does not account for the provision of bulk electricity and water to category B municipalities as this falls in the jurisdiction of these municipalities as concluded in the Structures Act. The district municipality has been assigned level-one and -two accreditation in terms of the housing function. Level-two accreditation status gives municipalities the responsibility to approve and manage housing construction programmes and ensure technical quality assurance.

Key facts and figures

Local municipalities: Dikgatlong Municipality, Magareng Municipality, Phokwane Municipality, Sol Plaatje Municipality
Major towns: Kimberley, Barkly West, Warrenton, Jan Kempdorp, Hartswater
Main roads: N12, N18, R29, R47
Railway: Extensive rail network
Airports: Kimberley Airport
Area covered: 13 518.19km²

Infrastructure Services

The primary focus of the district municipality is the needs of the category B municipalities, with a specific focus on providing basic infrastructure for water, sanitation and electricity and building capacities of the municipalities in the district. National and provincial imperatives are evident in the grant funding made available to the municipality, most notably for infrastructure.

The municipality has set a general strategic outcome to reduce operating cost in an effort to increase funding to address the present infrastructure backlog. Achievement of this objective requires defined strategic measures to be adopted, which include setting specific goals, action plans and time frames. These measures are encapsulated in the SDBIP. The SDBIP indicates quarterly performance targets, financial performance targets and assigns responsibility to execute the respective performance targets to various departments.

The District Municipality does not provide any services directly to communities. Our clients are the smaller local municipalities, which we support to improve their service delivery. We provide support by advising on technical matters, building capacity as well as financial support through various programmes. The District Municipality employ three engineering technicians who are assigned to each of the smaller local municipalities in the region, namely Dikgatlong, Magareng and Phokwane. These technicians render support in terms of the following:

Assisting with project identification and planning
Support with terms of reference, specifications and evaluation of tenders
Project management and technical support for projects under construction
Assist with operation and maintenance to improve Blue- and Green Drop scores
Identify gaps in training and assist with capacity building

Frances Baard District Municipality makes two types of allocations to local municipalities. Firstly, through the capital programme which is designed to assist local municipalities acquire assets to improve service delivery. Secondly, through allocations made to operation and maintenance of plant and infrastructure as municipalities often lack the capacity and funding to properly operate and maintain the service infrastructure upon which effective delivery depends.

Planning and Development

The objectives of planning and development in Frances Baard District Municipality may be summarized as follows:

To promote the implementation of a sustainable integrated development planning in the district
To promote and implement an efficient and effective spatial planning system in the municipality
To ensure an effective and efficient GIS in the district
To ensure the promotion and development of the local economy in the district
To promote an effective and efficient Performance Management System in the district

Performance Management System

In its quest to promote performance management in the district municipality the department has recruited performance management interns and stationed them in Dikgatlong, Magareng and Phokwane municipality; in order to enhance the implementation of PMS in the local municipalities. Some of these interns have been absorbed as PMS officers in their respective municipalities.

Spatial Planning

Frances Baard District Municipality is responsible for ensuring the development of sustainable human settlements in the district.

In order to achieve this goal the district has facilitated the preparation of planning instruments such as the preparation and adoption of Integrated Zoning Scheme for Dikgatlong and Phokwane municipality; the preparation and adoption of a Township Establishment schemes in Jan Kempdorp, Barkly West, and Kingston Extension and finalization of the title deeds for the beneficiaries of Farm 212 in Koopmansfontein.

Geographic Information System (GIS)

The municipality’s GIS provides spatial information to all stakeholders for planning and resource allocation purposes. In 2012/2013 a data cleansing project was undertaken in Magareng municipality. The project entails the verification of cadastral information against deeds information to ensure that every title holder is on the correct erf and is being billed for water and electricity correctly.

This project if correctly implemented will enable municipalities to enhance their billing capacity and boost their revenue base.

Local Economic Development (LED)

The district municipality has a legislative mandate to ensure the promotion of the economic development of the Frances Baard District. The Frances Baard District Municipality’s LED Unit is committed to promote quality economic development facilitation and coordination services to Category B Municipalities and its communities by : Facilitate for opportunities for SMME’s in procurement at FBDM.

Facilitating Agri-PPP, Value Adding and Market Access opportunities. Developing an Investment Attraction and Marketing Strategy for FBDM. Facilitating for finance, funds and resources from non-governmental, private and donor sectors. Monitoring the creation of jobs/business opportunities created by FBDM.

Environmental Health

The FBDM is responsible for the rendering of municipal health and environmental planning and management services in the district. Municipal health services (MHS) as defined in the National Health Act, 2003 include the following: water monitoring; food control (evaluation of food and non-food premises); sampling of food products; waste management and general hygiene monitoring; health surveillance of premises; surveillance and prevention of communicable diseases; vector control monitoring; environmental pollution control; control and monitoring of hazardous substances; chemical safety; managing, controlling and monitoring exhumations and reburials; managing and controlling of pauper burials and poverty alleviation projects.

Fire Fighting and Disaster Management

The implementation of the Disaster Management Act is the responsibility of the district municipality. The National Disaster Management Framework of 2005 guides the district municipality to implement the function according to the following key performance areas:

Building integrated Institutional Capacity for Disaster Risk Management;
Disaster Risk Assessment;
Disaster Risk Reduction; and
Response and recovery.

Disaster practitioners have been appointed within Dikgatlong, Magareng and Phokwane local municipalities. This was done to ensure that fire and disaster management activities can be implemented with uniformity and to assist the local municipalities in case of any disaster or incident. The strengthening of the veldfire capacity was identified as a high priority for disaster management and in partnership with “Working on Fire” (WoF), a subsidiary of the Department of Agriculture, volunteer veldfire fighting teams was trained.

Housing

The Frances Baard District Municipality established a housing unit in 2006 with a vision to accelerate housing delivery and quality within the District. In 2009, the district municipality was successfully assessed for level 1 and 2 accreditation by the Accreditation Compliance and Capacity Assessment Panel. The municipality was delegated level 1 and 2 functions issued through an accreditation certificate in May 2011. This was a major accomplishment, not only for the district municipality but for the Province as a whole as it became one of the only two district municipalities in the country to attain level 2 accreditation. Since obtaining level 2 accreditation, the district municipality has been able to fulfil its obligation of performing the housing functions as per the accreditation framework and other pieces of legislation including the Constitution of the Republic, 1996, the Housing Act, Act 107 of 1997 and the National Housing Code.