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The SDB ProgrammeThe eThekwini Municipality has embarked on a Development Programme to improve service delivery, address socio-economic inequalities and spatial reorganisation, in the South Durban Basin. An Area Based Management (ABM) programme has been introduced to develop opportunities to enhance local area management and create new initiatives which are specific to the area. The South Durban Basin is strategically positioned as:
ABM's Key Development ObjectivesThe South Durban Basin Business Plan has identified the following overall strategic outcome:
Context of the South Durban BasinAny proposed development within the SDB is designed with a view to catapult the Southern African region and the entire African continent into the global economy, providing an outstanding environment for manufacturing, industrial, logistics, transportation, e-commerce and social/community related activities bearing in mind the environmental implications these activities have on surrounding land uses. The Durban International Airport is in close proximity to the Indian Ocean. It is connected to the national N2 freeway and the busy R102, with a railway station alongside the site, thus effectively linking the two ports as well as the inland economic heartland and Johannesburg International Airport. |
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