Is urbanisation in South Africa on a sustainable trajectory?

Turok, Ivan; Borel-Saladin, Jacqueline

doi:10.1080/0376835x.2014.937524

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“…The informal economy thus offers food sources which respond to key needs of poor consumers. This is particularly relevant in cities where unemployment and poverty are often concentrated in fragmented and remote peri-urban informal settlements [83,84].…”

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Mapping Obesogenic Food Environments in South Africa and Ghana: Correlations and Contradictions

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In sub-Saharan Africa, urbanisation and food systems change contribute to rapid dietary transitions promoting obesity. It is unclear to what extent these changes are mediated by neighbourhood food environments or other factors. This paper correlates neighbourhood food provision with household consumption and poverty in Khayelitsha, South Africa and Ahodwo, Ghana. Georeferenced survey data of food consumption and provision were classified by obesity risk and protection. Outlets were mapped, and density and distribution correlated with risk classes. In Khayelitsha, 71% of households exceeded dietary obesity risk thresholds while 16% consumed protective diets. Obesogenic profiles were less (26%) and protective more prevalent (23%) in Ahodwo despite greater income poverty in Khayelitsha. Here, income-deprived households consumed significantly (p < 0.005) less obesogenic and protective diets. Small informal food outlets dominated numerically but supermarkets were key household food sources in Khayelitsha. Although density of food provision in Ahodwo was higher (76/km2), Khayelitsha outlets (61/km2) provided greater access to obesogenic (57% Khayelitsha; 39% Ahodwo) and protective (43% Khayelitsha; 16% Ahodwo) foods. Consumption and provision profiles correlate more strongly in Ahodwo than Khayelitsha (rKhayelitsha = 0.624; rAhodwo = 0.862). Higher obesogenic food consumption in Khayelitsha suggests that risky food environments and poverty together promote obesogenic diets.

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Section: Food Environments In South Africa and Ghanamentioning

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Mapping Obesogenic Food Environments in South Africa and Ghana: Correlations and Contradictions

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“…Despite valiant efforts, the housing backlog has continued to expand as approaches have resulted in large, but dwindling numbers of uniform units that disregard beneficiary needs [42], [43] within a neoliberal policy framework aimed at developing internationally competitive cities [1], [12]. Despite a fixation on eliminating informality through extensive slum eradication programmes in accordance with international norms, informal development practices have intensified [44], [45], signifying a renewed struggle for Lefebvre's the right to the city [12]. Informality has strengthened its presence in the South African shantytown and increasingly in low-income suburbs and the state's subsidised housing projects, evidenced by an overwhelming number of illegal electricity and water connections, informal businesses and informal backyard (rental) structures [46].…”

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Considering Planning Approaches in the Global South and Learning From Co-Production in South Africa’s Informal Backyard Rental Sector

Lategan¹,

Cilliers²

2017

WIT Transactions on Ecology and the Environment

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The global South has traditionally been regarded as oppressed and subjugated, grappling to reach western ideals on the appropriate, desirable and modern. However, framing the developing world as such, fails to recognise that western norms may be neither feasible nor appropriate in these regions and discounts the value of alternative, mostly informal, approaches to provide outcomes more suited to the global South status quo. This paper aims to showcase how western standards and development mechanisms are still propagated in the developing world and how local populations adapt to the outcomes of such approaches to suit their needs and circumstances, in the process challenging western norms and shaping the city from below. The paper employs a qualitative research methodology based on a literature review of core concepts, including: the right to the city, spatial justice, co-production, modernism and neoliberalism; before turning to a case study of South Africa and its informal backyard rental sector to explore research objectives. The subsequent discussion frames the informal backyard rental sector as an example of the interface between the formal and informal; the state and civil society; and the global North and global South. Accordingly, presenting informal backyard rentals as a manifestation of co-production that provides fertile ground to rethink western ideals and reframe urban planning theory, policy-making and practice towards a more inclusive understanding based on lived experience. The paper concludes that such reconsidered approaches may hold potential for more sustainable and just settlements in South Africa and rest of the global South, but also for the cities of the global North, where issues like informality are increasingly imbedded in the urban landscape.

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“…Urbanisation is a phenomenon that has been growing in recent decades in the global south (Turok & Borel-Saladin, 2014), manifesting itself in the form of informal settlements (Freire, et al, 2014). It is said that Africa is urbanising rapidly from a 15% growth in 1960 to 40% in 2010 (Freire, et al, 2014).…”

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“…South Africa has a particular history, which informed its migration and urbanisation patterns over the past few decades, known as apartheid. The apartheid system historically endeavoured to restrict and control the population movement as well as its settlements patterns in the rural areas or Bantustans (Turok & Borel-Saladin, 2014). Thus tyrannical laws were enforced on people such as the welldocumented population control, Group Areas Act of 1950 (Act No.…”

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“…Thus tyrannical laws were enforced on people such as the welldocumented population control, Group Areas Act of 1950 (Act No. 41 of 1950) and pass law that caused impermanence in the urbanisation process (Turok & Borel-Saladin, 2014;Harrison, et al, 2008;Zuma, 2013). These events resulted in inadequate urban planning in the urban areas which lead urban settlements into sprawling peri-urban areas (Harrison, et al, 2008).…”

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Mobile Gis: A Tool for Informal Settlement Occupancy Audit to Improve Integrated Human Settlement Implementation in Ekurhuleni, South Africa

Mokoena¹,

Musakwa²

2016

Int. Arch. Photogramm. Remote Sens. Spatial Inf. Sci.

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Commission II, Theme Session 17 Smart CitiesKEY WORDS: Mobile GIS, occupancy audit, informal settlements, integration, Ekurhuleni ABSTRACT:Upgrading and relocating people in informal settlements requires consistent commitment, good strategies and systems so as to improve the lives of those who live in them. In South Africa, in order to allocate subsidised housing to beneficiaries of an informal settlement, beneficiary administration needs to be completed to determine the number of people who qualify for a subsidised house. Conventional methods of occupancy audits are often unreliable, cumbersome and non-spatial. Accordingly, this study proposes the use of mobile GIS to conduct these audits to provide up-to-date, accurate, comprehensive and real-time data so as to facilitate the development of integrated human settlements. An occupancy audit was subsequently completed for one of the communities in the Ekurhuleni municipality, Gauteng province, using web-based mobile GIS as a solution to providing smart information through evidence based decision making. Fieldworkers accessed the off-line capturing module on a mobile device recording GPS coordinates, socio-economic information and photographs. The results of this audit indicated that only 56.86% of the households residing within the community could potentially benefit from receiving a subsidised house. Integrated residential development, which includes fully and partially subsidised housing, serviced stands and some fully bonded housing opportunities, would then be key to adequately providing access to suitable housing options within a project in a post-colonial South Africa, creating new post-1994 neighbourhoods, in line with policy. The use of mobile GIS therefore needs to be extended to other informal settlement upgrading projects in South Africa.

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Is urbanisation in South Africa on a sustainable trajectory?

Cited by 66 publications

References 15 publications

Mapping Obesogenic Food Environments in South Africa and Ghana: Correlations and Contradictions

Mapping Obesogenic Food Environments in South Africa and Ghana: Correlations and Contradictions

Considering Planning Approaches in the Global South and Learning From Co-Production in South Africa’s Informal Backyard Rental Sector

Mobile Gis: A Tool for Informal Settlement Occupancy Audit to Improve Integrated Human Settlement Implementation in Ekurhuleni, South Africa

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