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- Title
Informal and Unserviceable: the State, Informal Settlement Residents, and Sanitation Management in Western Tshwane City, South Africa.
- Authors
Shoniwa, Tapiwa T.; Thebe, Vusilizwe
- Abstract
South Africa's approach towards informal urban sanitation is demonstrative of a formal-informal binary position, which has seen the development and entrenching of a top-down technocratic state planning system, which has in turn legitimised non-interventionism and systematic exclusion of informal activities and practices, forcing informal settlement communities to manage their sanitation. We use Phomolong as a prototypical case of the deterioration of state-resident relations. We argue that the state approach also has implications on the residents' responses to sanitation management processes. We conclude that the absence of a coherent sanitation policy for informal settlements has significantly diminished these communities' sense of citizenship and belonging.
- Subjects
SOUTH Africa; SANITATION; CENTRAL economic planning
- Publication
Urban Forum, 2020, Vol 31, Issue 4, p533
- ISSN
1015-3802
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s12132-020-09396-3