Return/Retourner/VolverWORLD CLASS CITIES FOR ALL (WCCA) CAMPAIGN
Held at Cape Town Civic Centre on 8 November 2007
Cape Town municipality
Mansoor Mohamed (Economic Development) MM
Emlyn Hammond (Business Areas Management, Informal Trading) EH
Leslie de Reuck (Director of Operations for 2010) LDR
Pat Horn (StreetNet International) PH
Roger Ronnie (SAMWU Head Office) RR
Reggie Mpembi (SAMWU Western Cape) RM
Vivienne Lalu (SWEAT) VL
Edwina Smith (New Women’s Movement) ES
Thembeka Majali (AIDC) TM
Mzwanele Zulu (Joe Slovo Task Force) MZ – arrived later
Observer: Malorie Flon (intern working with StreetNet on WCCA campaign)
MM introduced his colleagues, and LDR chaired the meeting.
EH and LDR introduced
themselves and their areas of responsibility.
WCCA participants introduced
their organizations and their areas of concern in relation to the
preparations for the 2010 FIFA World Cup, including evictions of street
vendors and shackdwellers leaving them without homes and/or livelihoods,
marginalisation of women, bylaws that have a negative impact upon the
poor, etc.
StreetNet introduced the
background to the WCCA campaign and this meeting.
Cape Town has entered into a Host City agreement with FIFA (as have all the host cities). LDR undertook to forward a copy of this agreement to StreetNet. He also informed the WCCA team that there is a national Host City Forum, which is chaired by Minister Mufamadi (Local Government) – at which the host cities discuss the FIFA Guidelines, and there is a possibility that they want to develop “Host City Bylaws”.
The WCCA will make a direct
approach also to the Host Cities Forum.
The WCCA delegation were
informed that we were two weeks too early – because the City has not
yet decided on its preparations process for 2010.
LDR said that in two weeks there would be a meeting of City
officials to discuss the “softer” issues, meaning how would
constituencies such as street vendors and street children be affected by
the preparations for 2010. This
would be followed by meetings with established forums representing these
constituencies with whom the City has already established relationships.
PH suggested that this presents
an ideal opportunity for the WCCA campaign partners to become integrated
into the process from the start – as the WCCA campaign’s approach is
to include as many affected constituencies and stakeholders as possible,
including those with whom the City has already engaged.
LDR undertook to table the WCCA
campaign’s request for engagement at a meeting due to be held on Monday
12th November, and thereafter to come back with the City’s
suggestions about how to take forward the engagement.
PH undertook to forward a document with the campaign’s South
African framework and demands, before Monday.
PH reported that the WCCA has
been representing the Community Constituency of NEDLAC in the negotiation
of a 2010 Framework Agreement, which is now due to be negotiated by the
NEDLAC partners with the FIFA LOC (Local Organising Committee).
The City was presented with a
copy of the 2010 Framework Agreement and the WCCA demands to
municipalities, as well as a draft proposal for a stakeholders’ forum
as envisaged in the WCCA demands. It
is the intention of the WCCA campaign to negotiate with the City on the
WCCA demands (including the proposed stakeholders’ forum) once we have
agreed on the process to be followed in our way forward.
The meeting ended with a
consensus to continue to engage after the Cape Town City meetings
scheduled for the next two weeks where the WCCA campaign will be
introduced by LDR.
LDR expressed a concern about the possibility of separate approaches by many different groupings, and asked if the WCCA group knew of any others. TM advised that there was a group called “Community Connections” which EH undertook to investigate whether they already had engagements with the municipality. PH assured LDR that the approach of the WCCA campaign was to try to work with all interested representative stakeholder groupings, and would be adopting an integrated approach to engagement with the City.