Municipalities in South African have become focus points for service delivery, economic development, tourism and infrastructure development, safety and security, job creation, poverty eradication or alleviation and environmental sustainability. These are new devolved constitutional obligations, which must be implemented if a developmental role is to be achieved. An integrated development plan is the cutting-edge of a developmental municipality in which priorities and key competencies are identified in relation to the availability of financial resources. An integrated development plan is a road map that provides sign posts to a particular direction and that direction is the Vision of a municipal. It is a living strategic five-year plan of the municipality in which the political direction of the municipality is embedded. It is through the an integrated development plan that consultation and participation by communities, councilors, off