Renting is a common form of tenure in many developing countries in the global south. This is
due to a housing shortage in these countries and has led to a situation where the vast …

In the two decades from 1994 to 2014, the South African government received repeated
praise and recognition for its housing policy, particularly from UN-Habitat (the UN Human …

Housing is a major challenge for most African countries including South Africa which is
characterized by numerous backlog of housing provision. This study seeks the adoption of …

Housing policy in the apartheid period was a central tool of social, spatial and economic
exclusion, and contributed much to the race-based exclusionary character of South African …

The vast majority of city planning literature on informal occupations has focused on how
residents occupy vacant and peripheral land, developing informal structures to address their …

Transitions to democracy promise equal political power. But political ruptures carry no
guarantee that democracy can overcome the accumulated inequalities of history. In South …

The South African government's attempts to provide land and housing for the poor have
been focused primarily on interventions at the policy level and within internal state …

The multidimensional paradigm of sustainable development encapsulates one of the great
changes of the twentieth century. Against its backdrop, apartheid-era South African cities are …

The thesis explores the internationalisation and financialisation of the South African
economy in the post-apartheid period grounded in a Marxist political-economy framework …

This paper explores the commodification, commercialisation, and financialisation of low-cost
housing in post-apartheid South Africa through the systems of provision (sop) approach. The …