- Title
- A critical analysis of sustainable human settlement in housing: the case of Hlalani, South Africa
- Creator
- Nkambule, Sipho Jonathan
- ThesisAdvisor
- Helliker, Kirk
- Subject
- Human settlements -- South Africa
- Subject
- Black people -- Housing -- South Africa -- Grahamstown
- Date
- 2013
- Type
- Thesis
- Type
- Masters
- Type
- MSocSc
- Identifier
- vital:3334
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1003740
- Identifier
- Human settlements -- South Africa
- Identifier
- Black people -- Housing -- South Africa -- Grahamstown
- Description
- As a result of apartheid’s history, the current South African government was initially faced with two major challenges in the development of sustainable human settlement in urban areas: delivering the quantity of houses needed to reduce the massive housing backlog (notably in black townships) and overcoming the problem of racially-based spatial separation inherited from the apartheid era. To rectify the legacies of apartheid, the state has sought to pursue a massive housing programme in urban areas for poor urban blacks. In doing so, though, it has worked within the confines of the racially-segregated South African city and has adopted a macro-economic policy with a pronounced neo-liberal thrust. This thesis examines the South African state’s housing programme with reference to questions about social sustainability and specifically sustainable human settlements. It does so by highlighting social capital and the different forms it takes, notably bonding, binding and linking capitals. This is pursued through a case study of a small area of a black township in Grahamstown called Hlalani. The case focuses on the lived experiences of Hlalani residents and their intra-household and inter-household relations as well as their linkages with local state structures. It is concluded that social capital is weak and incipient in Hlalani and that Hlalani could not, by any definition or measurement of the term, be labeled as a sustainable human settlement.
- Format
- 147 leaves, pdf
- Publisher
- Rhodes University, Faculty of Humanities, Sociology
- Language
- English
- Rights
- Nkambule, Sipho Jonathan
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