Directorates

Corporate services

Contract Management

Marketing, public liaison and industrial development

Administrative and financial support services:

  • Legal services
  • Property management
  • Call Centre
  • Office assistance

Information Technology including:

  • GIS
  • LAN/WAN
  • Communication
  • Intranet
  • Hardware
  • Software and programmes
  • Management over the Act for the access to information

Human Resources Management

Management of Ward Committees (Reports to Speaker but administratively part of Corporate Services)

 

Financial Services

Budget management

Insurance management

Asset management

  • Acquisitions and warehousing (including purchasing policy and tender administration)
  • In respect of housing projects, conveyance and creating of consumers´ accounts.

    • Debtors
    • Creditors
    • Expenses
    • Valuations
    • Internal audit - Reports directly to Municipal Manager

Technical Services

Electrical services, including:

  • Client service
  • High tension
  • Low tension
  • Street lighting

Mechanical services

Building control, including:

  • Building plans
  • Building inspections
  • Control of illegal structures
  • Supervision of erection of houses (municipal housing schemes)

Civil engineering, including:

  • Roads
  • Stormwater
  • Sidewalks
  • Sewerage
  • Water

Solid waste management including:

  • Clean-up at Amenities per agreement (Community Services)
  • Removal of garden refuse
  • Dumping site

Creation of services

Solid waste management

Town planning, including:

  • Environmental management (See community Services)
  • Land development and land change management

 

Community Services

Environmental health, including:

  • Environmental health
  • Pest, dog, baboon and stray animal control
  • Law enforcement (environment) (Environmental management is linked to Town Planning)
  • Primary Health
  • Socio-economic development, including applications and assistance with welfare support, childcare facilities, old age care.
  • Youth development
  • Gender equality matters
  • Community Safety Forum
  • Distress relief and relocation, as well as disaster support
  • Support of NGO´s in terms of establishment, constitution, management, development and funding
  • Local economic development, including planning and development and industrial development management
  • Maintenance of all municipal buildings (including Housing)
  • Housing management, including need-assessment, project coordination, community liaison, allocation, rental and subsidy administration.

Library Services

Protection Services, including:

  • Fire brigade
  • Municipal policing
  • Public safety
  • Emergency and disaster management
  • Control room
  • Traffic services, including licenses (learner and driver´s licenses) and NAVIS (vehicle licenses/roadworthiness)

Municipal amenities, including:

  • Parks
  • Sport facilities
  • Community halls
  • Cemeteries
  • Sites
  • Swimming pools
  • Resorts