Participation of disadvantaged communities in project planning and decision‐making: A case‐study of Hout Bay

The Effects of Informal Settlement on Suburban Property Values in Cape Town, South Africa

“…Two detailed studies of Hout Bay and Noordhoek partly confirm the realtors comments, noting that the houses closest to the informal settlements lost value and became much more difficult to sell (Oelofse 1994;Sowman and Gawith 1994). According to Oelofse (1994, 329) realtors suggested that property prices in Hout Bay had dropped by 15% in some areas and by as much as 35% in the areas closest to the settlement (see also Weekend Argus, 21 March 1992).…”

A new rural dispensation? An examination of community development, public works programmes and land resettlement at RA 60 in the Whittlesea district

“…Community or participatory development is receiving much attention in development and planning circles in South Africa (Burkey, 1993;Sowman & Gawith, 1994). The fact that the 1980s were classified, in the development world, as the International Drinking Water and Sanitation Decade helped to focus the spotlight on basic needs and community development, and specifically on the use of appropriate technology to supply the most basic of resources, namely water, to the most destitute communities (Kerr, 1989).…”

Consent and contradiction: Scholarly responses to the capital subsidy model for informal settlement intervention in South Africa

“…This is illustrated by the Cape Town context, where much academic literature is available on the informal settlements in Hout Bay and their relocation site within that same suburb (see Sowman and Gawith, 1994;Nathan and Spindler, 1993;Lohnert, 1998;Oelofse and Dodson, 1997, among others), and the Marconi Beam informal settlement in Milnerton (see Lohnert, 1997Lohnert, , 1998Saff, 1996Saff, , 1999Yose, 1999). Little in turn has been asked about those settlements embedded in, or on the verges of, the African townships of Nyanga, Guguletu, Langa and Khayelitsha.…”