“…The spatial patterns of regional inequality in South Africa have been studied extensively over the past half century or more, and several regional demarcations have been undertaken on the basis of the core-periphery model and the model of development (Fair 1965(Fair , 1970(Fair , 1974(Fair , 1976Board et al 1970;Schmidt 1973;Browett and Fair 1974;Browett 1975Browett , 1976Hanekom 1976;Olivier 1981;Bloch 2000;Harmse 1989Harmse , 2004Harmse , 2007. The methodology and model of development regions used for the 1980, 1991 and 1996 regional demarcations (Harmse 1989(Harmse , 2004(Harmse , 2007 were used to facilitate the demarcation of development regions for 2001.…”