WESTERN CAPE GANGWATCH
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This whole concept of gangwatch was created with the sole purpose of uniting people against gangsterism drugs etc, the pages is how the community feel at that moment when crime happen we copy and paste it exactly the way people express themselves, people who read it can feel the fear and the grip our communities must feel at the hands of criminals on a daily basis.
LIST OF ISSUES
Education
Poverty in the Western Cape limits the option's available to learners and results in high drop-out rates. Learners from poor families often bear greater responsibilities at an early stage such as supporting the family and caring for younger siblings. They have less access to educational resources and often come from illiterate and resource-and text poor families.
HIV/AIDS-The prevalence of HIV/AIDS amongst school children and the increasing number of AIDS orphans is resulting in greater drop-out rates and less time and energy available to learners for focusing on schooling
Housing
A 1994 housing white paper described providing housing to the country’s citizens as one of the greatest challenges facing government. It estimated that the urban housing backlog stood at about 1.5 million houses and that the backlog was growing at a rate of 178 000 units a year.
The 1996 national census revealed that 1.4 million shacks or informal dwellings remained in the country. This represented 16% of the 9 million households in South Africa at the time.
By 2011, the census showed that the number of shacks and informal dwellings had increased to about 1.9 million. However, this then represented about 13% of all households in the country – a decrease of three percentage points since 1996.
How much will it cost to eradicate the backlog?
Following an investigation into the housing situation in South Africa, the Financial and Fiscal Commission (FFC) produced a report titled Exploring Alternative Finance and Policy Options for Effective and Sustainable Delivery of Housing in South Africa.
Late last year, FFC chairperson Bongani Khumalo estimated that it would cost government approximately R800 billion to eradicate the housing backlog by 2020. How many houses are delivered each year?
SA’s 20 years of housing delivery
Dec 2013 (9 months)
South Africa
1994/95
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Interactive graphic: Drag to navigate the timeline.Click the provinces for their respective data.
Houses/units (excluding serviced sites) delivered from Human Settlements Development Grant funds as at December 31 2013
60,820
Western Cape:
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13,123
16,242
30,970
34,575
26,916
17,730
16,643
13,626
13,309
13,019
16,053
16,042
16,093
15,717
16,566
12,908
11,065
13,534
5,691
Environment
The mission of the Western Cape Department of Environmental Affairs and Development Planning is to promote environmental integrity that supports human well-being and economic efficiency towards sustainable life in the Western Cape. The Department's strategic goals are to embed sustainability in the growth and development that mitigates and adapts to climate change in the Western Cape; provide leadership and innovation in environmental management and integrated development planning; enhance the quality of life of all people through facilitating sustainable living; and contribute to economic growth as well as participation in, and access to the environmental economy. The Constitution provides that everyone has the right to an environment that is not harmful to their health or well-being; and to have the environment protected, for the benefit of present and future generations, through reasonable legislative and other measures that prevent pollution and ecological degradation; promote conservation; and secure ecologically sustainable development and use of natural resources, while promoting justifiable economic and social development.
Healthcare
Utilisation:
Serve a population of 6.0 million of which 78% (4.7 million) are uninsured.Primary health care (PHC) services are rendered through 284 fixed facilities and 169 non-fixed facilities. Fixed facilities include 9 community health centres, 50 community day centres and 92 clinics managed by the City of Cape Town Municipality while non-fixed facilities refer to satellite clinics and mobiles.There were 14.3 million patient visits at PHC level at a cost of R167 per visit (each person in the province visited a PHC facility approximately 2.4 times during the year).About 2.2 million (15%) of the PHC visits were children under the age of five years (each child under five years visited a PHC facility approximately 3.8 times during the year).
Specialised hospitals:
There are 6 TB, 4 psychiatric and 1 rehabilitation hospitals in the Western Cape.Jointly these hospitals admitted 10 613 patients and had 59 197outpatient visits.
HIV and TB:
986 223 people were tested for HIV.By the end of the financial year 156 703 people were on anti-retroviral therapy (ART).816 ART chronic clubs have been established in the Province.The cure rate amongst 13 614 new, smear-positive adult TB cases was 83.7% and 7.5% defaulted.
Emergency medical services (EMS)
EMS functioned from 52 ambulance stations and operated 251 ambulances.514 901 patients were transported.In 70.9% of cases, EMS responded within 15 minutes to priority 1 calls in urban areas and in 85.3% of cases within 40 minutes to priority 1 calls in rural areas.Fabian Higgins (EMS recue diver) and Constable Heino Uhde (SAPS rescue diver) received an international award on 25th of November 2013 for their courage and bravery during the Miroshga incident in Hout Bay.