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SOUTH AFRICAN NATIONAL CIVIC ORGANISATION Easter.n Cape
Region
6 SEPTEMBER 1994
Dear. President
A.
THE CIVIC ORGANISATION AND ITS COMMITTEES
The civic organisations
was established to fight an behalf of residents against the problems that
residents face as residents. In
other words, it is the people's watchdog, their
eye-opener.. It is the residents' rock o+ ages and an institution for polishing
and
protecting you against all residential handicaps. This organisation also
wor.@::s hand in glove with other. organisations in the
struggle for. a better.
deal for. workers' union, reconciliation forums, youth organisations, women's
organisations, students' organisations,
teachers' organisation,
cultural
organisation, sport Organisation, chl(r.ch Organisations, tr.ader.s'
organisations, transport services, social wor.@.:ers
Organisations, Lawyers',
doctors', development organisations etc.
This organisation caters for.
all residents. When one has been
elected as member of parliament
or
as a councillor, one is expected to step down from any position one has
been holding in this organisation because one cannot lead
SANCO and at the
sametime be a councillor. or a member. of parliament.
B. THE STREET
COMMITTEE
The residents of a street/ lane hold a meeting in which all
the residents a+ each street/lane are represented and elect a committee
that is
composed of 11 members. This committee Must consist of six elderly people and
the rest i.e. -five should be made up Of the
youth(th (from 18 to 34 years of
age). These 11 members are termed the Street Committee Office bearers, and they
are the mouthpiece
of their. street or lane. Their names should be forwarded to
your local office that is also made up of eleven local office bearers.
They must
be arranged as follows)ws:-
NAMES POSITIONS HOME
ADDRESS
1. F'r.esi dent
· Vi ce-Pr.esi
dent
3. (general Secretary
4. Deputy Sen.Secretary
@
ir
5
6 Publicity Secr.etar.y
7. Economic
Development
8. Health & Wel+ar.e
9. Land, Housing &
Services
10. Local Government
11. Human RESOURCES
But street
executive is the above-mentioned 11 office bearers plus president and general
secretary -from each yard in the street.
C. STREET (GENERAL
COUNCIL
(1) A Street General Council is made up of the 11 street
committee office-bearers plus five members from each yard and it Meets at
least
four. times per. annum. The street executive as the executive organ of each
street must meet once a month to prepare .for
the Area Executive Committee
meeting that is convened on the second week each month. "So or pay a visit
to the office or residents' committee of your. town so that you may be
furnished with clear. details about t your street or area starts
and ends, irrespective of who its members arr."
(2) Matters
that need to be discussed in your area are first tackled by the yards and then
from there to the lane, and the latter.
refers if the street-et committee or.
lane committee fails to resolve such mattress it Must refer. them to which
you)LL are represented
by two office-bearers of your street or. lane.
In
the farms where there are no 'street committees" we start by
a Farm Area Committee when we arr. establishing a branch of the
civic organization. When The Farm Area Committee fails to resolve an
issue it must refer it to the Branch Executive Committee which consists a+ 11
members plus two members from each area committee. Examples: Toga Branch
Committee, Tantyi Branch Committee, Fingo Branch Committee,
(Brahamstown Farms
Branch Committee, Branch Committee from the so-called white suburbs, Branch
Committee from the so-called coloured
Townships.)
(3) When a "Br.anch
Committee" has failed to resolve an issue it must be referred to the Local
Executive Committee. When the Local Executive Committee is unable to solve
the dispute/matter it appeals to the Local General Council that is made up
of 11
elected members plus five members from each branch. When this body cannot solve
the problem too, it must appeal to a local
mass meeting of the residents for.
advice.
D. CIVIC DEPARTMENTS
The office of the local office
bearers a+ residents though it mainly depends an the yards, streets, areas,
branches, local executive
and local general council, it is sometimes given a
hand by the following departments that arr. manned by SANK appointees:
Local
Genera Council or Con+er.ence, Local Conference or. A.S.M which is composed of
SANCO 11 office bearers plus 30 reps elected
per. branch, elected in meetings
convened by Branch
General Councils. 4.
When the Local cannot
resolve the issue at hand it appeals to the sub-region/zone which is under. the
cc)control c)+ the region.
The region)n is directly under SANCO NATIONAL. The
following is a list of the departments c)+ SANCO at all levels in the
region.
1. Civil society, tolerance and reconciliation headed by the
President.
2. Anti-cr-ime and human rights headed by the Deputy
president.
3. Constitutional and Policy Development headed by the
Secretary.
4. Organizing RDP' education headed by deputy
secretary.
5. Media and publicity headed by Publicity
Secretary.
6. Land, Housing and Services including
transport)r.t)
7. Health and Welfare
8. Local
Government
9. Human ResoLtrces
1(:). Finance -
headed by the treasurer.
E. MATTERS HANDLED BY STREET
COMMITTEES
95.
Street committees deliberate over. all issues
that affect their daily lives in their yards, street, areas, branches and towns
or farm
and rural areas you are living in. The mattress mentioned above also
include all these that are tabulated below:-
1. Thuggery that is spearheaded
by thieves, burglars, rapists, murderers, oppression and capitalism.
2.
To redress and rehabilitate socially maladjusted
children.
3. Electricity, water, rent and
telephones
4. Provision a+ electricity in the streets and tarred
roads/streets
5. F'r.ovisic)n of playing facilities for the children and
crèches, community and recreation halls, community recreation
grounds.
6. Recreation grounds, community hall,
etc.
7. Schools for children from SL(B-A to Std
lo.
8. Teacher Training Schools.
9.
Technical Colleges.
I ('-). Commercial
Colleges.
11. agricultural Colleges.
12. Training
Hospitals.
13. Pensions, employment opportunities, business
undertaking[.small or medium.
14. Urban and rural local
government.
15. A democratic government that is fettered by a
constitution.
16. Reconstruction and Development
Programme.
17. All the problems that unsettle the country in its entirely
or. the residents in par.ticlklar. eg the VAT that is gripping the
people.
18. Democracy education.
19. Voter education and
election.
2(-'). Vocational (guidance.
21.
Constitution and Bill of Rights.
22. Tolerance and
reconciliation.
23. Civics education.
24. Civil SC)society
studies.
25. Provision a+ houses for, the homeless, writing a++ a+ the
Apartheid rent arrears, provision of title deeds to the people by the
government.
26. Rents or. amounts thereof that must be paid by residents
after, the writing a++ of areas.
27. Meetings of the management of the
restructured local authority and the management a+ a civil society
forum.
28. Meetings of the Council 0+ a local authority (all councillors) and
that of the council of a civil society .f c)forum.
29. Tripartite and
co-operative alliance between the Government private Sector. and civil society
+c)forum.
3C). Community - Based Development Forum (CBDF) Community Based
Development Or.ganisation (CBDO) which is a Community Trust and the
question a+
Community Development Facilities (CDFs).
31. Credit Unions life Food
Buying Clubs.
32. Cleaning of streets, graveyards, yards, etc.
33.
Rebuilding of hedges/fencing around the yards, and gardens
so that the
residents can property use these to feed
themselves by sowing seeds and
harvest thereby feeding
themselves without paying visits to the retail
stores.
:34. People enlightening themselves about the F'TA, PTSA, SRC
etc.
35. People should educate themselves about the proper ways and means
of uplifting themselves with aim of solidifying themselves under
the leadership
of. SANCO and its closer cc) -operation with other. organisation like-.:e
Community based Organisation (CBO forum)
i.e. organs c)+ civil society and
political organisations.
36. Establishing and strengthening of the following
major. organisations c+ civil society.
1. Civil Movement, led by
SANCO
3. Education, led by NECC
4. Sport and
Recreation, led by NOSC/NSC
5. Arts and Cultur.e, led by National
Coalition
6. Religion, led by the Interfaith dialogue(e.
7.
Youth, led by the e NYDF
8. Women, led by the NWC
9. Nc)n-State
media
2. LabOLtr. Movement, led by COSATU.
IC).
Non-State business, led by NAFCOC
11. NGO-sector.,
led by an NGO Forum
12. Traditional Leaders Forum
(if’ any)
37. All issues that affect residents specifically and
generally. This is the 7-point-plan, composition of structures and the present
regional leadership.
SOUTH AFRICAN NATIONAL CIVIC
ORGANISATION
EASTERN CAPE REGION
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