- Title
- The successes of infrastructure development in Nelson Mandela Bay
- Creator
- Matolengwe, Nombasa
- Subject
- Infrastructure (Economics) -- South Africa -- Nelson Mandela Bay Municipality
- Subject
- Public works -- Finance Economic development Sustainable development -- Economic aspects
- Date Issued
- 2019
- Date
- 2019
- Type
- Thesis
- Type
- Masters
- Type
- MPhil
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10948/41010
- Identifier
- vital:36282
- Description
- Lack of capacity in the former black areas of South Africa, including lack of proper infrastructure has proven to be one of the problems the country is facing. The apartheid system did not only separate the different racial groups in geographical terms, but also prevented black communities access to infrastructural services. Number of strategies have been undertaken to address the issue of infrastructure gap including Infrastructure Development Act signed by former President Jacob Zuma in 2014, the act was aimed at coordinating and facilitating public infrastructure development. Infrastructure development is significant to the National Development Plan, therefore greater levels of investment in infrastructure will continue into the future. An amount of R379 088 000 000 has been invested in infrastructure development in South African municipalities over the period of three years from 2015. The purpose of this study is to identify critical success factors of infrastructure development projects and to understand what is meant by the term project success in the local government context. The critical success factors in infrastructure development investigated in this study were identified through reviewing the existing literature on critical success factors from 1960’s to 2015, together with relevant municipal frameworks. A questionnaire was developed, focusing on factors for successful delivery of infrastructure development projects, interviews were conducted with Ward Councillors, Integrated Development Plans and Built Environment Performance Plans officials to investigate the meaning of project success in local government context. The study suggests that a project success definition in terms of local government should include community satisfaction, fulfilment of strategic objectives of the municipality and the completed project should serve the purpose it was intended for and must be bringing social change to the area it is being implemented in. The study finds no significant correlation between project success and identified individual critical success factors; however, it has been discovered that risk management, as one of the factors, has a significant positive correlation with other factors.
- Format
- ix, 156 leaves
- Format
- Publisher
- Nelson Mandela University
- Publisher
- Faculty of Business and Economic Sciences
- Language
- English
- Rights
- Nelson Mandela University
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