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Title: | Residential desegregation and the property market in Pietersburg 1992-1997 |
Authors: | Donaldson, S.E. Van der Merwe, I.J. |
Year: | 1999 |
Periodical: | Urban Forum |
Volume: | 10 |
Issue: | 2 |
Pages: | 235-257 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | South Africa |
Subjects: | race relations real property suburban areas |
External link: | https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF03036620 |
Abstract: | By 1990, the Northern Province city of Pietersburg had been territorially segregated into three discrete group areas (Pietersburg, Nirvana, and Westenburg), while a black ethnic township had developed within the neighbouring former Lebowa homeland. The urban landscape and urban space reflected the ideology of apartheid in South Africa. The city had become highly segregated in terms of both race and social status. The scrapping of apartheid laws in 1991, notably the Group Areas Act, paved the way for a process of residential desegregation. The degree, nature and extent of this desegregation may act as a barometer for measuring the urban restructuring process after apartheid. This paper focuses on the linkages between desegregation and the property market in the Pietersburg area for the period 1992-1997. The research process consisted of differentiating suburbs according to the average municipal valuation, determining to what extent desegregation had occurred through the use of the municipal property data roll, and collecting title deeds to complement property ownership data. The term desegregation is used to indicate the percentage of black home-owners living in houses located in previous group areas of Pietersburg (with its 14 white residential suburbs), Nirvana (former Indian group area), and Westenburg (former coloured group area). The process of desegregation is seen to be more complex than just measuring statistical data and determining residents' perceptions of it. Bibliogr., notes. |