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"On 25 April 2018, Council approved the City’s revised Municipal Spatial Development Framework (MSDF) which pursues a new spatial form for Cape Town. The MSDF provides policy certainty to private and public developers, and prioritises public expenditure on an Urban Inner Core. It further seeks to curb urban sprawl by focusing on inward growth and transit-oriented development accompanied by higher densities and land-use diversification."
The Western Cape Department of Agriculture has released Building the City of Cape Town’s Resilience and Adding to Regional Competitiveness: Philippi Horticultural Area: Socio-Economic Agricultural Plan, 23rd April 2018. "The study was initiated in response to growing stakeholder concern about the lack of policy certainty regarding land use and the protected area status of the PHA. The tender for the study was awarded to Indego Consulting, which led a consortium of specialist firms and individuals.The Indego team was required to review the significance of the PHA in terms of agricultural production, the natural environment and its broader socio-economic role and contribution. The study was located within the context of the negative impact of climate change and severe drought on agricultural production within the Western Cape."
The SAHRC Report: Transformation at Public Universities in South Africa "encompasses a record of the systemic challenges that hinder the attainment of substantive transformation in higher education and therefore constitutes an important tool for assessing progress in attaining substantive transformation in this sector. Moreover, the recommendations contained in this Report may be used to contribute to the transformation processes currently underway in many of our public universities. For this reason, therefore, it is hoped that despite the delay in the finalisation of the Report, it will receive due consideration from all stakeholders involved in the transformation project."