# Summary

- Link: https://dearsouthafrica.co.za/draft-national-spatial-development-framework/summary/
- Published: 2020-01-21T11:55:42+02:00
- Author: dearSA

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This National Spatial Development Framework (NSDF), the first of its kind, seeks
to make a bold and decisive contribution to bringing about the peaceful, prosperous
and truly transformed South Africa, as articulated in the Freedom Charter, the Reconstruction
and Development Programme and the National Development Plan. It does so in full 
recognition of:

• The stranglehold that the unjust national spatial development paradigms,
 logics
and patterns of the past have placed on our many attempts at breaking the back of
poverty, unemployment and inequality;

• The valuable, and often hard lessons we have learnt over the last twentyfive years
in our pursuit of national reconstruction, inclusive economic
 growth and spatial
transformation; and

• The necessity for decisive, collaborative and targeted state action in
 national
space, to drive our country towards the shared, inclusive and sustainable future
we desire and require. In accordance with this transformative agenda, and guided
by the Spatial Planning and Land Use Management Act, Act 16 of 2013 (SPLUMA), the
NSDF consists of seven interrelated parts:

• Part One (1) provides an overview of the background to, need for and role
 of 
the NSDF, (2) locates it within the context of the National Development Plan (NDP),
and (3) sets out the NSDF’s theory of change to move the country from where we are,
to the South Africa we want and need; • Part Two provides an overview of the process
that was followed in the compilation of the NSDF, including (1) the data that was
gathered and processed, (2) the work-sessions that were held, and (3) the consultations
and engagements that were undertaken; • Part Three provides a high-level overview
of a series of significant national spatial development dynamics, challenges and
opportunities that impact upon, and shape both (1) the national development landscape,
and (2) our ability to realise our national development goals; • Part Four (1) puts
forward the national spatial development vision of a shared and just South Africa,(
2) sets out the ‘shifts’ that must be made in the national spatial development logic
based on the objectives and directives of the NDP and the SPLUMA principles, to 
enable a radical, transformative and decisive change in our national spatial development
pattern, (3) puts forward six national spatial development levers to give spatial
expression to the national spatial development vision, and support the shifts that
need to be made in accordance with the new national spatial development logic, (
4) provides a set of five required national spatial outcomes to achieve the national
development objectives, as outlined in the NDP, and realise the national spatial
development vision and desired national spatial development pattern, as outlined
in the NSDF, and (5) gives an indication as to what life would be like in our country
by 2050 if the vision is pursued, the necessary shifts are made and the six national
spatial development levers are appropriately and effectively used; • Part Five provides
national spatial development and investment guidance in the form of (1) an ideal
national spatial development pattern, (2) five NSDF sub-frames, and (3) five national
spatial action areas, to inform, direct and guide all infrastructure investment 
and development spending decisions by government and the private sector, to enable
us to achieve the desired national spatial development pattern for South Africa 
in 2050, and in doing so, realise our national development objectives, as set out
in the NDP; • Part Six deals with the implementation of the NSDF, and (1) outlines
the measures, approach and actions required to realising our national spatial development
vision in a coherent, diligent and systematic way, and (2) provides an overview 
of the role-players involved in doing so; and • Part Seven provides a summary of,
and conclusion to the NSDF.

While the NSDF recognises the challenges involved in bringing about the
 necessary
changes in planning, budgeting and implementation in and between the three spheres
of government, it is also very clear as to their importance in contributing to the
joint crafting of our desired and shared future.