Founded
and Launched by the City of Cape Town in 2003, the Khayelitsha
Community Trust (KCT) facilitates the infrastructural development
of Khayelitsha’s CBD area through the establishment of commercial,
residential and community facilities, which will eventually benefit
the broader Khayelitsha community.
The Khayelitsha Community Trust is managed by an independent
and professional group of people who have varied expertise in
facilitating such development. A Trust Deed has been lodged as
a guiding legal document to the Trustees. As the Trust is a municipal
entity, the Trustees are selected through a public process, which
is facilitated by the City of Cape Town.
The Trust has been mandated to facilitate such infrastructural
development with the intention to alleviate poverty in Khayelitsha
and its surrounding areas through generating direct and indirect
economic opportunities.
The overall objective of the KCT is to uplift
and empower the community of Khayelitsha
In implementing its mandate, the Trust secured 73 hectares of
land by means of a land availability and development agreement
with the City of Cape Town. The Trust developed a business plan
for the acquired land, which highlighted its intentions of building:
- The Khayelitsha Retail Centre in the Central Business District
(CBD)
- A housing show village
- A petrol service station
- An office block as part of the first phase of this development
The Trust subsequently sourced funding for the first phase of
the development in the form of a loan from Rand Merchant Bank
(RMB) with assistance from the City of Cape Town.
The first step in achieving this goal was the construction of
the highly successful Khayelitsha
Centre in 2005, which boasts a large variety of retail stores
and a current occupation level of 97%.
The next phase of the Khayelitsha Central Business District Development
Project involves the construction
of a show village. A show village consisting of nine
different types of units that prospective homebuyers can choose
from has already been built in the heart of Khayelitsha’s
Central Business District. The construction of municipal offices
as well as a petrol service station will also form part of the
first phase.
The trustees of the Khayelitsha
Community Trust are in the process of developing an empowerment
strategy to encourage the economic emancipation of local contractors,
social cohesion, and the transfer of skills to the Khayelitsha
community. They work to ensure that the KCT personnel follow such
a strategy in the implementation of its objectives.
Role of the Khayelitsha Community Trust
The Khayelitsha Community Trust strives to fulfil the following
objectives in the
Khayelitsha Business District (KBD):
- To acquire land and the related development rights
- To establish a development entity to implement proposed developments
- To procure community facilities through and with other parties
- To obtain access to the land with the support of other parties
- To manage the Khayelitsha Business District
- To introduce and implement an empowerment strategy for the
community
- To raise the necessary funds to achieve the above
- To determine the manner in which surplus funding will be invested
and distributed.
Alignment with the City of Cape Town’s
Integrated Development Plan (IDP)
The development of the Khayelitsha Business District (KBD) is
closely aligned to the City of Cape Town’s seven strategic
focus areas as expressed in the City’s Integrated Development
Plan (IDP). The KBD Development Project relates to the following
focus areas:
- Sustainable urban infrastructure and services
- Public transport system
- Integrated human settlements
- Safety and security
- Economic support
- Health, social and human capital development
- Good governance
Please contact us for more details
about the KCT.
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