1. On Friday, 24-26 June 2016, the Mayoral Urban
Regeneration Programme (MURP) in the City of Cape
Town in collaboration with Social Development, Health,
Sports & Recreation, Harambee, hosted a youth
summit.
The youth summit was targeting youth between ages of
13 and 25 years, but the youth candidates that are older
than the said ages were not excluded from participation
of the project. The recruitment targeted the non-political
youth organisations structures within the Bishop Lavis,
Bonteheuwel and Valhalla Park (BIBOVALLA) areas.
The individual youth candidates that were not members
of any associations were also accommodated to
participate, but based on the selection criterion that was
agreed upon by the Project Manager, service provider
and members of the Project Management Team (PMT).
The article serves to provide experiences gained in
City of Cape Town during the last six (6) months of
experiential learning while studying at the Cape
Peninsula University of Technology (CPUT).
The experiences that I have gained was the
importance of involving community/ beneficiaries
during the needs identification period prior the
project/programme implementation. The summit
initiative was to deepen democracy through youth
participation in accordance to the provision of the
constitution of the Republic of South Africa (1996)
and, other relevant legislations, policies, strategies
and in line with the strategic pillars of the City of
Cape Town as enshrine in its Integrated
Development Plan (IDP).
The City of Cape Town
The City of Cape Town is an Organization
which is City of Cape Town Municipality.
Established as per the constitutional mandate
of the Republic of South Africa.
Core business:
Rendering of service to communities such as
housing, roads, electricity, refuse collection
etc.
Departments:
The organization has twelve (12) distinctive
directorates with various branches or
departments. The department that are aligned
to the aforesaid directorates provides services
delivery to communities that falls under the
City of Cape Town jurisdiction.
ARTICLE ON EXPERIENTIAL LEARNING EXPERIENCES
Community Needs Stakeholders Public Participation Implementation
BIBOVALLA 2016 YOUTH SUMMIT
“together as youth we can make progress
possible
The Experiences gained at the organisation
Departments
MURP
Subcouncil
CouncillorsStakeholders
Mayco
Membes
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2. What these experiences meant to me
Experiences contribution in achieving career objectives
As an official I have learned that never take decision on
behalf of other people. A process of community
engagement must be taken seriously. Every citizen has a
right to contribute/ comment on developmental
programmes in their respective areas. The youth
programmes was to give a platform to the youth in
expressing their views and take centre stage and make
meaningful contributions as agents of change in their
communities by identifying challenges and solution and
there after interventions needs to be undertaken.
 Always be transparent especially that the organisation
that I’m working for is politically influenced.
 Be innovative and creative (think out of the box).
 Prioritise, avoid backlog and manage impediments
 Manage risks
Safe City Inclusive City Caring CityOpportunity City Well-run City
Holiday programmes will help boredom
Valhalla Park Youth get a kick out of
skateboarding
Youth Summit Ambassadors
YOUTH PROGRAMS GALLERY
Lorica Mene: MURP Cluster B Secretary