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- Title
Reinforcing Housing Assets in the Wrong Location? The Case of Botshabelo, South Africa.
- Authors
Marais, Lochner; Ntema, John; Cloete, Jan; Rani, Kholisa; Lenka, Molefi
- Abstract
Apartheid policies were instrumental in displacing black urbanisation away from key urban areas. Botshabelo, 55 km east of Bloemfontein, is an example of this. This paper uses asset-building theory to argue that post-apartheid policy for Botshabelo has largely reinforced apartheid spatial planning patterns and locked in a significant percentage of the Botshabelo population. Population growth is slow, with evidence of the working age population leaving Botshabelo. At the same time, substantial investment in infrastructure services has increased investment in housing in the past 20 years.
- Subjects
BLOEMFONTEIN (South Africa); APARTHEID; URBANIZATION; CITIES &; towns; INFRASTRUCTURE (Economics)
- Publication
Urban Forum, 2016, Vol 27, Issue 3, p347
- ISSN
1015-3802
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s12132-016-9276-x