A municipal council must—
| (1) | assess the human resources necessary to perform its functions, with particular reference to— |
| (a) | the number of senior managers required; and |
| (b) | the competencies that a senior manager must have. |
| (2) | assess existing human resources by race, gender and disability, and department with reference to their— |
| (c) | employment capacities. |
| (3) | plan within the available budgeted funds, including funds for the remaining period of the relevant medium-term expenditure framework, for the recruitment, retention and development of human resources according to the municipality's requirements determined in terms of paragraph (a), which plan must, as a minimum, include— |
| (a) | realistic goals and measurable targets for achieving representativeness, taking into account paragraph (b); and |
| (b) | targets for the training of senior managers per occupational category and of specific senior managers, with specific plans to meet the training needs of persons historically disadvantaged. |
