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- Title
Renegotiating Local Governance in a Post-Apartheid City: The Case of Cape Town.
- Authors
Wilkinson, Peter
- Abstract
The article focuses on the restructuring of the system of local government in the post apartheid city of Cape Town. Since South Africa was reintegrated into the global community in the early 1990s, the opening up of the local economy to global competition has forced a major restructuring of the city's traditional manufacturing industrial base which has resulted in extensive retrenchments. The fundamental restructuring of the system of local government which is initiated by national legislation in 1993 resulted in the formation of a unitary metropolitan local authority with a jurisdiction encompassing a total land area of some 2160 square km, of which 670 square km are currently built up. Capital investment in infrastructure is funded primarily through loans raised from the private financial sector.
- Subjects
CAPE Town (South Africa); SOUTH Africa; LOCAL government; POST-apartheid era; LEGISLATIVE resolutions; CAPITAL investments
- Publication
Urban Forum, 2004, Vol 15, Issue 3, p213
- ISSN
1015-3802
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s12132-004-0001-9