Author: J. MasonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Durban (South Africa)
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
A Socio-economic Study of a Site and Service Scheme in Durban (Tintown)
Author: J. MasonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Durban (South Africa)
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
Housing Policy in Conditions of Rapid Urbanisation
Author: Gavin Grant MaasdorpPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : City planning
Languages : en
Pages : 864
Book Description
The Joint Acquisitions List of Africana
Author: Joint Acquisitions List of Africana
Author: List of Titles Added to the Catalogue
Author: University of London. School of Oriental and African Studies. LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 680
Book Description
National Union Catalog
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Union catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 1036
Book Description
Includes entries for maps and atlases.
Class, Race, and Inequality in South Africa
Author: Jeremy SeekingsPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300128754
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 458
Book Description
The distribution of incomes in South Africa in 2004, ten years after the transition to democracy, was probably more unequal than it had been under apartheid. In this book, Jeremy Seekings and Nicoli Nattrass explain why this is so, offering a detailed and comprehensive analysis of inequality in South Africa from the midtwentieth century to the early twenty-first century. They show that the basis of inequality shifted in the last decades of the twentieth century from race to class. Formal deracialization of public policy did not reduce the actual disadvantages experienced by the poor nor the advantages of the rich. The fundamental continuity in patterns of advantage and disadvantage resulted from underlying continuities in public policy, or what Seekings and Nattrass call the “distributional regime.” The post-apartheid distributional regime continues to divide South Africans into insiders and outsiders. The insiders, now increasingly multiracial, enjoy good access to well-paid, skilled jobs; the outsiders lack skills and employment.
(D)urban Vortex
Author: Bill FreundPublisher: University of Kwazulu Natal Press
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
Durban is a remarkable place in which to test propositions about the significance of the city and the significance of change. New urban literature tends to divide very sharply between the problems faced by cities with major resources at the center and the problems faced by cities at the periphery. Many South African cities are simultaneously the site of both kinds of phenomena. These cities have strong traditions of forceful planning from above with considerable capacity to finance change. They witness industrialization, but they are also the site of massive squatter settlements and populations that fall outside the functioning of the "formal" economy. This book highlights the role of networks and the co-operation for survival by Durban's newer citizens as they make space for themselves. In an era of fundamental power shifts, the constant need for re-invention and adaptation to social and economic change, Durban is a genuine social vortex. Through the work of writers from a range of disciplines, this book focuses on the transition since the 1970s and explores contemporary challenges facing Durban.
Chatsworth
Author: Ashwin DesaiPublisher: University of Kwazulu Natal Press
ISBN: 9781869142551
Category : Apartheid
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
In 1960, apartheid's planners created the 'Indian' township of Chatsworth, evicting people from established neighborhoods around Durban and forcibly settling them into the grid of a modern racial ghetto. Making a home within this architecture of exclusion, along streets without names, tens of thousands of new residents began building new lives and new communities, developing an urban space with a unique cultural vibrancy born of creativity and economic struggle. With the dismantling of 'Group Areas' legislation from 1990, and within South Africa's continually changing political landscape, the Chatsworth township has witnessed innovations of livelihood, shifting boundaries of identity, and protracted social challenges. This book brings together an exhilarating mix of voices that collectively tell the story of Chatsworth's origins, transformations, and ongoing rhythms of daily life. Its narrative richness is further enhanced with classic photographs, some dating back to the period of early settlement, as well as a contemporary photo essay by distinguished photographer, Jenny Gordon.
From Comrades to Citizens
Author: G. AdlerPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230596207
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
In the 1980s South Africa's urban townships exploded into insurrection led by youth and residents' organisations that collectively became known as the civics movement. Ironically the movement has been unable to adapt to the role of a voluntary association in the liberal polity it helped create, and has great difficulty defining any alternative role. This volume charts the rise and fall of the movement in the transition to and consolidation of democracy in South Africa.