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Title:How many people are there in Winterveld? What a proper census should show
Author:Horn, André C.
Year:1997
Periodical:Urban Forum
Volume:8
Issue:1
Pages:117-132
Language:English
Geographic term:South Africa
Subjects:population
informal settlements
External link:https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF03036613
Abstract:The Winterveld settlement north of Pretoria (South Africa) developed from the reclassification in 1936 of extensive farm units belonging to whites as leased areas. These farms were bought and consolidated by land speculators, subdivided into smallholdings and then sold to individual African owners for small-scale farming. However, as a result of difficult farming conditions and political events, the settlement was gradually transformed from a planned agricultural village to an informal urban settlement. The interplay between location, site, events and human agents that determined the transformation of this settlement captured the imagination of the South African public and at the same time tortured the collective consciousness. The high sociopolitical profile of the Winterveld settlement is to a large extent the result of extensive media coverage which has often used population statistics to bring across a particular point of view. In the absence of reliable official data these population figures are speculative and often exaggerated. This paper reviews estimates of the population size in Winterveld and reconsiders it on the basis of reliable information, viz. the results of three surveys conducted in Winterveld between 1980 and 1985 by the National Building Research Institute of the Centre for Scientific and Industrial Research, and an unpublished photogrammetric survey of the number of residential dwellings in Winterveld as it was in 1976 and 1990 (University of Pretoria). Bibliogr., notes, ref.
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