Transforming Settlement in Southern Africa

Transforming Settlement in Southern Africa
Author: de Wet Chris de Wet
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Total Pages: 336
Release: 2020-03-31
Genre: SOCIAL SCIENCE
ISBN: 1474400442

This volume examines the ways in which changing political and economic processes impact upon patterns of population movement and settlement. It focuses on the southern African region as it has moved from the experiments of the early independence era, through civil war and refugee flight, into the current era characterised by globalization and the demise of apartheid. Focused case studies from across the region deal with specific aspects of these transformations and their policy implications.

Upgrading Informal Settlements in South Africa

Upgrading Informal Settlements in South Africa
Author: Liza Rose Cirolia
Publisher: Juta and Company (Pty) Ltd
Total Pages: 512
Release: 2017-11-10
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1775820831

More than 1.2 million households in South Africa live in informal settlements, without access to adequate shelter, services or secure tenure. There has been a gradual shift to upgrading these informal settlements in recent years, and there have been some innovative experiments. Upgrading Informal Settlements in South Africa: a partnership-based approach examines the successes and challenges of informal settlement upgrading initiatives in South Africa and contextualises these experiences within global debates about informal settlement upgrading and urban transformation. The book discusses: · The South African informal settlement upgrading agenda from local, national and international perspectives · South African ‘city experiences’ with informal housing and upgrading · The role of partnerships, actors and capabilities in pursuing an incremental upgrading agenda · Tools, instruments and methodologies for incremental upgrading · Implications of the upgrading agenda for the transformation of cities The book has been written and edited by a wide range of practitioners and researchers from government, NGOs, the private sector and academia. It covers theory and practice and represents a vast accumulated body of housing experience in South Africa.

Structural Transformation in South Africa

Structural Transformation in South Africa
Author: Antonio Andreoni
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 411
Release: 2021
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0192894315

Taking South Africa as an important case study of the challenges of structural transformation, the book offers a new micro-meso level framework and evidence linking country-specific and global dynamics of change, with a focus on the current challenges and opportunities faced by middle-income countries.

Transforming Southern Africa

Transforming Southern Africa
Author: DIVISION ON GLOBALIZATION AND DEVELOPMENT. UNITED NATIONS CONFERENCE ON TRADE. STRATEGIES
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2022-01-07
Genre: Economic development
ISBN: 9789211130072

This volume investigates the status of regional integration in Southern Africa. It discusses the critical challenges to be overcome and surveys the most interesting opportunities for achieving deeper regional integration.

Transforming Settlement in Southern Africa

Transforming Settlement in Southern Africa
Author: C. J. De Wet
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Total Pages: 374
Release: 2001
Genre: History
ISBN:

This volume examines the ways in which changing political and economic processes impact upon patterns of population movement and settlement. It focuses on the southern African region as it has moved from the experiments of the early independence era, through civil war and refugee flight, into the current era characterised by globalization and the demise of apartheid. Focused case studies from across the region deal with specific aspects of these transformations and their policy implications.

Landscape Transformations and the Archaeology of Impact

Landscape Transformations and the Archaeology of Impact
Author: Warren R. Perry
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 192
Release: 1999-11-30
Genre: History
ISBN: 0306459558

In 1984, Perry went to Swaziland, in southern Africa, to do archaeological fieldwork on the emergence of the Swazi state. He concentrated on the unsanctioned realms of the recent history, the Mfecane/Difaqane period, and soon discovered that no archaeology had been undertaken and that the official r.

The South African State Transformed?

The South African State Transformed?
Author: Louis A. Picard
Publisher: UCT Press
Total Pages: 360
Release: 2024-09-10
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1991236042

This book examines the nature of the 1994 political transition in South Africa and its impact on post-apartheid South Africa. Specifically, it examines the failures of liberalism within the context of the transitional process that led to the institution, if not the practice, of a non-racial state in 1994. The term liberal is an eclectic term defining a several of views, political and economic. We use the term here within context, but essentially define it as a commitment to open views, the willingness to consider change, and to value basic human rights. The nature of institutional change in South Africa as it moved towards a democratic state would influence whether South Africa would succeed as a newly industrializing pluralist democratic country or collapse into yet another African failed state. As South Africa moves toward its fourth decade of majority rule, the view towards the future is much less promising than it was in 1994.

Democracy on the Margins

Democracy on the Margins
Author: Trevor Ngwane
Publisher: Wildcat
Total Pages: 192
Release: 2021-02-20
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780745341996

A fascinating ethnography of the democratic organization of shack settlements in South Africa.

Developmental Regionalism and Economic Transformation in Southern Africa

Developmental Regionalism and Economic Transformation in Southern Africa
Author: Said Adejumobi
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 271
Release: 2020-09-01
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1351053566

Interrogating the notion of developmental regionalism as applies to Southern Africa, this volume explores the policy options and interventions necessary to ensure a peaceful and stable regional development process. With a focus on the Southern African Development Community (SADC), the contributions explore how regional institutions such as this can be drivers of developmental regionalism. Institutional architecture, along with key policy priorities, and implementation strategies in areas such as trade, industry, agriculture, private sector development and conflict management are analysed, and the ramifications of regional interventions for peace building and regional security in post-conflict Southern African countries are explored. Drawing on this analysis the book proffers key policy options and strategies for how developmental regionalism can be both consummated and sustained, ultimately driving economic transformation. Illustrating to policymakers, scholars and development practitioners how regional institutions can be engines or facilitators of regional development, the book will be of interest to researchers in a broad range of areas including development studies, public policy and African studies.

The Politics of Transition

The Politics of Transition
Author: Richard Spitz
Publisher: Witwatersrand University Press Publications
Total Pages: 560
Release: 2000
Genre: History
ISBN:

During the early 1990s, South Africans kept a close eye on the media coverage of South Africa's negotiated transition to democracy. Likened to a soap opera by some, the negotiations featured violent interlopers, dramatic walkouts, alliances and, somehow, a fortunate conclusion in the form of the Interim Constitution and Bill of Rights. The importance of the negotiating process and the Interim Constitution itself should not be underestimated, however, in relation to their longer-term influence over the form of democracy currently enjoyed in South Africa. In this brave publication, Spitz and Chaskalson examine the politics behind the Kempton Park negotiations and the Interim Constitution, and the influence that these have had on the subsequent consolidation of a South African democracy.