Residential desegregation and the property market in Pietersburg 1992–1997

Donaldson, SE; Merwe, I. J. van der

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“…The effect on residential property prices of the Group Areas Act and its abolition has drawn the attention of a number of researchers (see, for example, Blades, 1993;Donaldson and Van der Merwe, 1999). Christopher (2001, p. 463) notes that:…”

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Post‐apartheid residential mobility patterns in two South African cities

Prinsloo¹,

Cloete

2002

Property Management

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Pre-1994 apartheid laws had a marked impact on urban land use patterns in South Africa. A new government came into power in 1994 and the Group Areas Act had been abolished. The resultant integration of residential suburbs was initially slow, but is occurring at an increasing rate. In this paper, relocation patterns in Johannesburg and Pretoria are analysed. Analysis of the process indicates that the socio-economic status and the affordability levels of the home-buyer will drive the relocation process. Integration levels will initially be highest in low-and middle-income residential areas. Shopping centres in certain areas had to change their products and tenant mix to cater for the specific needs of new black residents, while the increasing integration of residential areas will also have an impact on the location of office firms. Attention is drawn to certain similarities with the process of residential integration in the USA.

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Post‐apartheid residential mobility patterns in two South African cities

Prinsloo¹,

Cloete

2002

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“…In contrast to this, the residential desegregation process in South African cities has not been investigated to any great extent, yet the scrapping of apartheid legislation opened a fertile field of research. Empirical studies on residential desegregation after the repealing of all apartheid laws mainly focus on secondary and metropolitan cities such as Pietermaritzburg (Wood 2000), Pietersburg (Donaldson & Van der Merwe 1999a, b; Kotze 1997; Kotze & Donaldson 1998), Cape Town (Lemanski 2005; Oldfield 2004), and a comparative study of two provincial capitals (Kotze & Donaldson 1998) while scant attention has been paid to smaller towns such as Margate (Lemon & Clifford 2005).…”

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“…Second, most of the desegregation that has occurred, has involved the movement of black people into historically‐white areas (cf. Maharaj & Mpungose 1994; Morris 1994; Jurgens & Bahr 1998; Kotze & Donaldson 1998; Donaldson & Van der Merwe 1999a, b, c; Christopher 2001a, b; Gnad et al . 2002).…”

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Residential Desegregation Dynamics in the South African City of Polokwane (Pietersburg)

Donaldson¹,

Kotzé²

2006

Tijd voor Econ & Soc Geog

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This paper revisits the city of Pietersburg more than ten years after the repealing of the Group Areas Act in order to determine the extent to which the socio-spatial impress of apartheid segregation has been changed. The socio-spatial changes that have taken place in the city were brought about mainly through residential desegregation. The scrapping of the Group Areas Act in 1991 saw the movement of blacks into the city's former white, Indian and coloured suburbs. Initially the percentage in this regard was low: in 1992 the city's suburbs were one per cent desegregated. Ten years later, the city's desegregation level had increased to 32 per cent. In all neigbourhoods except three, the number of black property-owners had doubled. New Pietersburg remained undeveloped until informal squatters invaded it in the 1990s after the fall of apartheid. This area was earmarked for the development of low-income housing units in the 1997 Land Development Objectives. More than 300 land claims were lodged at the time. Because of the complexity of land claims and urban restructuring, the problem was still unresolved by 2005. Copyright (c) 2006 by the Royal Dutch Geographical Society KNAG Published by Blackwell Publishing Ltd..

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“…The theme of the historical shaping of the socio-spatial geography of South African cities continues to attract research attention, with the appearance of a stream of studies that build on a tradition of work in the pre-1994 period (Maharaj 1994(Maharaj , 1995(Maharaj , 1997. The restructuring of the apartheid city with its characteristics of residential segregation, buffer zones between races, peripheralisation of the black population and extended distances between place of residence and work has been the continued focus of research in several South African cities (Lemon 1996b;Tomlinson & Krige 1997;Khan & Maharaj 1998;Krige 1998;Saff 1999;Donaldson & Van der Merwe 1999Bremner 2000). The inner-cities of South Africa's major metropolitan centres have been focal points for considerable social and spatial change (Crankshaw & White 1995;Rogerson 1995;Morris 1997Morris , 1999.…”

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The Economic and Social Geography of South Africa: Progress Beyond Apartheid

Rogerson

2000

Tijd voor Econ & Soc Geog

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Residential desegregation and the property market in Pietersburg 1992–1997

Cited by 13 publications

References 4 publications

Post‐apartheid residential mobility patterns in two South African cities

Post‐apartheid residential mobility patterns in two South African cities

Residential Desegregation Dynamics in the South African City of Polokwane (Pietersburg)

The Economic and Social Geography of South Africa: Progress Beyond Apartheid

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