{"id":2238,"date":"2026-03-14T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-14T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/easternseaboard.gov.za\/index.php\/2026\/03\/14\/traditional-leadership-and-the-afrocentric-smart-city\/"},"modified":"2026-08-18T08:16:47","modified_gmt":"2026-08-18T06:16:47","slug":"traditional-leadership-and-the-afrocentric-smart-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/easternseaboard.gov.za\/index.php\/2026\/03\/14\/traditional-leadership-and-the-afrocentric-smart-city\/","title":{"rendered":"Traditional leadership and the Afrocentric smart city"},"content":{"rendered":"

Minister of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs Velenkosini Hlabisa led a high level engagement with His Majesties from KwaZulu-Natal and the Eastern Cape on the Eastern Seaboard Development Initiative, strengthening collaboration with traditional leadership to unlock economic opportunity in rural communities.<\/p>\n

Ms. Mapatane Kgomo of MISA outlined the agency role in coordinating implementation, set out progress to date, and emphasised the investment drive as the next critical step toward a new Afrocentric smart city.<\/p>\n

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Figure 5.1: Kingship engagement, Wild Coast Sun, 14 March 2026<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Figure 5.2: Kingship engagement, Wild Coast Sun, 14 March 2026<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Figure 5.3: Kingship engagement, Wild Coast Sun, 14 March 2026<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Figure 5.4: Kingship engagement, Wild Coast Sun, 14 March 2026<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Figure 5.5: Kingship engagement, Wild Coast Sun, 14 March 2026<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Figure 5.6: Kingship engagement, Wild Coast Sun, 14 March 2026<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Figure 5.7: Kingship engagement, Wild Coast Sun, 14 March 2026<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Figure 5.8: Kingship engagement, Wild Coast Sun, 14 March 2026<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Figure 5.9: Kingship engagement, Wild Coast Sun, 14 March 2026<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Figure 5.10: Kingship engagement, Wild Coast Sun, 14 March 2026<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Minister Hlabisa engaged Their Majesties on the Eastern Seaboard Development Initiative and the investment drive ahead.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":2138,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_angie_page":false,"page_builder":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[30],"class_list":["post-2238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-smart-city"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/easternseaboard.gov.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/esd-kingship-04.webp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/easternseaboard.gov.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/easternseaboard.gov.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/easternseaboard.gov.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/easternseaboard.gov.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/easternseaboard.gov.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2238"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/easternseaboard.gov.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2238\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2253,"href":"https:\/\/easternseaboard.gov.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2238\/revisions\/2253"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/easternseaboard.gov.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/easternseaboard.gov.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/easternseaboard.gov.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/easternseaboard.gov.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}