Reinforcing Housing Assets in the Wrong Location? The Case of Botshabelo, South Africa

Marais, Lochner; Ntema, John; Cloete, Jan; Rani, Kholisa; Lenka, Molefi

doi:10.1007/s12132-016-9276-x

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“…In contrast to eThekwini informal settlements, reasons for location in Phumekaya were mainly changing family circumstances (69%) or availability of accommodation. The influence of access to state housing rather than work in driving residential location has been noted in other South African studies (Shilpi et al, 2018;Marais et al, 2016), but also seems to be perpetuated through local markets.…”

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confidence: 60%

Economies and employment in growing and declining urban peripheries in South Africa

Todes

Houghton

2021

Local Economy

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Urban peripheral growth takes diverse forms, including the development of new economic centralities, raising questions about access to employment for residents, especially in contexts where unemployment is high and economies are shifting towards more skilled and service-related employment. This article explores two case studies of residents’ experience of access to employment close to economic centralities on the urban edge in South Africa: the growing northern eThekwini area (Durban), which has developed major retail and office complexes since the 1990s and more recently a new airport and industrial spaces, and a declining industrial decentralisation point established in the 1980s on the eastern edge of the City of Tshwane (Pretoria). It shows the severe impact of industrial decline in the Tshwane case, but while unemployment is less in northern eThekwini, access to employment for low-income residents in these areas is still very limited and constrained. Experiences are however differentiated, suggesting a complexity of outcomes. The cases point to the vulnerability of these economic centralities to economic change and the limits of new developments on the urban periphery to addressing unemployment. These findings have implications for the current advocacy of ‘new cities’ in economic contexts such as South Africa.

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Section: Comparative Analysismentioning

confidence: 60%

Economies and employment in growing and declining urban peripheries in South Africa

Todes

Houghton

2021

Local Economy

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“…Only a few were reported as keen to move out of the township and take residences in affordable 'former White residences' . Marais et al (2016) reflected on how the post-apartheid urban spatial policies had not improved the value of housing assets in Botshabelo. In their study on hidden urbanites in Mdantsane Township, Siyongwana and Chanza (2016) weighed in on general feelings of pseudo socio-economic transformation associated with the post-apartheid South Africa.…”

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“…Attainment of democracy in South Africa marked the beginning of the change that targeted the unsustainability of place due to unemployment, new governmentality, deterioration of education and health services, redefining of boundaries, spatial integration and the people's drive to feel integration. Thus, after 1994, South Africa embarked on a strategy to eradicate the former policy of exclusion of the township that had characterised the apartheid era (Visser and Rogerson, 2014;Marais et al, 2016).…”

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confidence: 99%

Demographic implications of transiting from segregation to integration: a focus on education issues in Buffalo City, South Africa

Siyongwana

Chanza

2020

Bulletin of Geography. Socio-Economic Series

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The study aims at interrogating the transformation of education in Buffalo City following integration of East London with its black townships. This paper is largely framed from a quantitative paradigm that draws from statistical data in linking population changes with educational patterns in the study area. Census data was used to trace population changes in post-apartheid South Africa, while performance in education was informed by matriculation results. Quantitative data were complemented with key informants’ qualitative opinions. The results indicate that the quality of education in former “white” schools is better than that of “township” schools. There are several pull factors that attract township learners to former white schools, albeit with integration challenges. The study concludes that if these challenges are masked to education planners and policy makers, they militate against the envisioned liberalisation of the democratic education system.

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“…With regards to housing development location, in cities such as Paris for instance, housing development followed employment location and job availability, so development followed where the opportunities were (Buczkowska & de Lapparent, 2014). Whilst in South Africa there is a culture of perpetuating housing delivery in peripheral locations, in most cases to further locally based political milestones, and agendas as was the case with Botshabelo (Marais, et al, 2016). Housing policies in South Africa in the first 20 years of democracy have resulted in monotonous and uniform settlements on the periphery; poor quality units, large numbers of poor people concentrated in the "old black townships"; and poor-quality residential communities without the necessary social facilities and supportive infrastructure.…”

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The Use of Mixed-Income Housing Development to Address Poverty and Inequality, Based on Delphi Empirical Approach: A Case of South Africa

Onatu

Baloyi

2020

JARSS

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Since the dawn of democracy in 1994, the Republic of South Africa (RSA) has been trying to address the aftermath and consequences of the apartheid regime. This comprises of the socio-economic, spatial, and political challenges that have persisted over the decades. These have had far reaching repercussions in the society to the extent that 25 years later after apartheid, the country finds itself with alarming rates of poverty, social exclusion, unemployment, and inequality. Literature has revealed that there is a direct relationship between poverty and inequality as well as access to socio-economic services / opportunities. Poor access to these services perpetuates exclusivity and thus inequality and marginalisation in all form and character. The purpose of this study is to investigate how housing developments have been used in South Africa to address poverty and inequality. The aim is to understand how to plan for better and more socially and economically thriving communities through housing development, focusing specifically on aspects of development that contributes to addressing poverty and inequality. Using a Delphi three round method of Inquiry of 20 experts, perceptions from a diverse panel of experts about mixed-income housing development were uncovered. In comparison to previous housing models, the study uncovered a significant paradigm shift in housing development and what a housing intervention should achieve. Since 2004 after the introduction of the Breaking New Ground Policy (BNG), the housing development approaches, and interventions have shifted away from just providing roof over once head to providing social asset to the poor and a whole range economic opportunities. The conclusion is that housing development by virtue of location, diverse housing typologies and tenure options is now part and parcel of integrated planning and the pro poor development agenda.

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Reinforcing Housing Assets in the Wrong Location? The Case of Botshabelo, South Africa

Cited by 11 publications

References 21 publications

Economies and employment in growing and declining urban peripheries in South Africa

Economies and employment in growing and declining urban peripheries in South Africa

Demographic implications of transiting from segregation to integration: a focus on education issues in Buffalo City, South Africa

The Use of Mixed-Income Housing Development to Address Poverty and Inequality, Based on Delphi Empirical Approach: A Case of South Africa

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