Continuing processes of uneven development in post-apartheid South Africa. Issue 2 (3rd April 2022)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Smith, Jennifer L.
• Is Part Of: African geographical review. Volume 41:Issue 2(2022)
• Page Start: 168
• Page End: 188
• Publication Date: 2022-04-03
• Subjects: Post-apartheid -- peri-urban -- uneven development -- mixed methods; Africa -- Geography -- Periodicals; Africa -- Description and travel -- Periodicals; 916.005
• DOI: 10.1080/19376812.2020.1860098
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1937-6812

Abstract

ABSTRACT: Despite the multitude of political and economic changes in post-apartheid South Africa, poverty is being relocated from former Bantustans and townships to peri-urban areas. Examining historical economic and planning policies, and changing social relations near Polokwane, South Africa, this research provides an uneven development analysis of South Africa's post-apartheid urban landscape. A mixed methods approach is applied to demonstrate new spatial configurations of inequality within and between peri-urban areas. The research concludes that neo-liberal urbanisms, local labor relations and local planning policies combined with the coproduction of peri-urban landscapes, shape new patterns of uneven development in post-apartheid South Africa.