Focus on the cities: towards a new national agenda

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Title:	Focus on the cities: towards a new national agenda
Author:	Bernstein, A.
Year:	1989
Periodical:	Africa Insight
Volume:	19
Issue:	2
Pages:	65-71
Language:	English
Geographic term:	South Africa
Subjects:	segregation urbanization
Abstract:	Apartheid ideology has come increasingly into conflict with the reality of modern South Africa and the idea of the permanence of black people in the South African urban economy has been more and more accepted. This implies a fundamental reassessment of the way in which policy is formulated, power is allocated and development is managed. A new urbanization strategy has to be developed, which must be viewed as a process and not a single event. Observation of South African policymaking and politics suggests that the composition of a new urbanization strategy will be handled in three core phases. The first phase was initiated after 1976 and culminated in the legislation of June 1986 abolishing influx control and partially restoring the South African citizenship of certain groups of black people. The second phase is characterized by a multifaceted debate concerning where and how black urbanization should occur. The third phase concerns decisionmaking: who formulates policy on urbanization, who implements such policy, and what priority is this allocated in national expenditure.