Raw life, new hope : decency, housing and everyday life in a post-apartheid community

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Title:

Author:

Ross, Fiona C.

ISBN:

9781919895277

Personal Author:

Ross, Fiona C.

Publication Information:

Claremont, South Africa : UCT Press, 2010.

Physical Description:

vi, 248 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Contents:

'Teen die pad, Die Bos' (Alongside the road, The Bush) -- 'I long to live in a house' -- Sense-scapes : senses and emotion in the making of place -- Relationships that count and how to count them -- 'Just working for food' : making a living, making do and getting by -- Truth, lies, stories and straight-talk : on addressing another --Illness and accompaniment -- Raw life, new hope? -- Endnotes -- Glossary of select Afrikaans terms.

Subject Term:

Community development, Urban -- South Africa -- Cape Town -- Case studies.

Low-income housing -- South Africa -- Cape Town -- Case studies.

Relocation (Housing) -- South Africa -- Cape Town -- Case studies.

Poor -- South Africa -- Cape Town -- Social conditions.

Human settlements -- South Africa -- Cape Town.

Squatter settlements -- South Africa -- Cape Town.

Post-apartheid era -- South Africa -- Cape Town.

Geographic Term:

Cape Town (South Africa) -- Social conditions.

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Summary

The Cape Flats, that windswept, treeless, barren, sandy area between two oceans at Africa's southern tip, is home to more than a million people, approximately one quarter of Cape Town's population. Many live in the sprawling shack settlements that ring the city. The post-apartheid state is attempting to eradicate such settlements by providing formal houses in planned residential estates. This book describes, over 17 years, the lives of the residents of one such shack settlement, The Park, who moved to new, 'formal' houses in The Village at the turn of the millennium.