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Residential Desegregation Dynamics in the South African City of Bloemfontein

verfasst von: Ralph Rex, Gustav Visser

Erschienen in: Urban Forum | Ausgabe 3/2009

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The paper revisits the city of Bloemfontein more than a decade and a half after the repeal of the Group Areas Act (GAA). The aim is to determine the extent to which apartheid residential property ownership segregation has changed. The scrapping of the GAA saw the movement of black property owners into the city’s former white neighbourhoods. Initially, the percentage in this regard was low, starting at 2.3% in 1995. Twelve years later desegregation levels in residential property ownership have increased to 11.4%. In contrast to 1995, desegregation has now taken place in all the former white group areas. The highest level of residential property ownership desegregation has occurred in neighbourhoods with relatively low municipal valuations and small stands in close proximity to former black township areas. It also transpired that single residential stands, as opposed to sectional title units in more densely developed residential complexes, are preferred by black residential property owners moving into former white group areas.

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It has to be stated that people were still being moved and areas proclaimed group areas right up to the repeal of the Act. Academic reflection tends to be directed towards the breakdown of segregation rather than on the inertia of bureaucracy to carry on doing what it has been told to do until instructions were issued (thanks to referee for pointing this out).

A note of terminology is that “African” and “black” is used interchangeably in this investigation.

This is the South African terminology for a property stand or lot.

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Titel: Residential Desegregation Dynamics in the South African City of Bloemfontein
verfasst von: Ralph Rex
Gustav Visser
Publikationsdatum: 01.08.2009
Verlag: Springer Netherlands
Erschienen in: Urban Forum / Ausgabe 3/2009
Print ISSN: 1015-3802
Elektronische ISSN: 1874-6330
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12132-009-9066-9

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