On the Edge of Reason: Planning and Urban Futures in Africa. Development and Urban Policy: Johannesburg's City Development Strategy. Reinventing the Johannesburg inner city. :: EVICTED TENANTS MOVE IN NEXT DOOR :: :: HILLBROW CLEAN-UP OPERATION CONTINUES :: Race, Space and the Post-Fordist Spatial Order of Johannesburg. LEAP - Projects. SUMMARYLeap members Lauren Royston and Monty Narsoo are providing advice and technical assistance to CALS on the San Jose case.
This support is wide ranging and includes the following initiatives: • Advising in negotiations with the City of Johannesburg (COJ) and its lawyers.• Assistance in the implementation of a Settlement Agreement between COJ and the residents. The main elements of this support are the relocation from San Jose to two temporary accommodation alternatives in Hilbrow and the development of suitable longer term accommodation options for the poor.• Participation in a reference group driving a socio economic survey of the residents of San Jose and another building in Main Street in Johannesburg CBD.
The survey is funded by the Social Housing Foundation and its aim is to inform the development of permanent accommodation options The project balances tries to find an appropriate balance between research and action. Location: Johannesburg Inner City Duration of project: Statistics South Africa - Home. Illegal inner city shops torn down | Inner city.
The Red Ants got to work in Berea, tearing down illegal structures along Abel Road as part of the Inner City Regeneration project. Illegally placed tin containers were removed THERE was mayhem along Abel Street in Berea yesterday when the Red Ants knocked down illegal structures in a drive to uplift the city's image. The inner city task officers, equipped with bulldozers, cranes and other equipment, in the presence of a heavily armed police force, pulled down the illegal structures and removed tin containers, ignoring protests from the owners. Tenants gazed in disbelief from their balconies at the bulldozers. In a few minutes, Abel Street resembled a war zone, with pavements littered with rubble and the air clogged with dust. A few owners could be seen wandering dejectedly around the spots where their businesses once stood, while others recovered what they could from the debris.
Most of the structures were built without approval, while others were erected on drains and pipelines. A hawker's hell - Archive. “Metro is killing me,” cries informal trader Lydia Masongo. The sole provider for her family of eight, Masongo says continued harassment by the Johannesburg Metro Police Department (JMPD) in the inner city is making it impossible for her to eke out a living on the streets. Since 1994, she has travelled from the East Rand every day to sell fruit and vegetables in De Villiers Street in downtown Jozi. She says police regularly harass her and steal her stock, leaving her with no proof of what has been taken. There have been days when she has lost as much as R1 500. Numerous hawkers told the Mail & Guardian that their livelihoods are being destroyed, because their stock is stolen or rots in police custody.
The South African National Traders Retail Alliance (Santra) says that members of the JMPD are stealing unlawfully confiscated goods while city authorities turn a blind eye. “I am so tired of having my stock taken that when I see them [police], I hide my stock,” says Masongo. Permit problems. IOL | News for South Africa and the world. Hijacked buildings in Joburg put the lives of thousands of residents in jeopardy. Many of these buildings house as many as 10 people per room or apartment and lack proper sanitation.
Photo: Refilwe Modise The alleged ring leader of Joburg’s inner-city building hijacking syndicates, Sinethemba Mkhumbuzi – linked to hijacking of more than a dozen high-rise buildings, will go on trial in April for fraud – almost four years after his arrest. Mkhumbuzi, who is accused of fraud related to the sale of Angus Mansions in Jeppe Street in the Joburg CBD, appeared in the Joburg Magistrate’s Court this week. Angus Mansions is a sectional title property owned by Philani-Ma Afrika – a subsidised scheme set up by the Gauteng government to assist underprivileged people to collectively acquire the building for their own occupation. Mkhumbuzi and his co-accused attorney Kenneth Ntila are charged with the fraudulent sale of Angus Mansions and pocketing almost R3.5 million from the sale.
Reconsidering bad buildings | Citichat 2010. Some buildings in the inner city remain in a bad state despite several City efforts to revitalise the area. Neil Fraser looks at the way forward. THE last Citichat reported on the external audit of the City's Charter Programme and drew a number of responses, each raising a list of issues, over and above those I referred to, on which no or little progress had been made. Neil Fraser One response concerned the Sectional Title Intervention pointing out that, after agreeing to run a pilot programme, choosing 10 buildings for the pilot and advising the occupants that a business plan would be produced by June 2009, nothing at all has happened and the programme appears to have been abandoned. Another comment was raised in relation to the progress of the City Property Programme.
So I was pleased to be travelling to Jozi to, among other things, attend the Inner City Forum meeting on Tuesday, 2 March and an opportunity to raise these issues. Hmmmm! And it's 87 days to the World Cup! Regards, Neil. Johannesburg an Overview. Johannesburg is probably the only metropolis in the world whose location was not dictated by the presence of navigable water.
Founded in 1886 to service the needs of the mines on the Witwatersrand, within fourteen years it had become the largest city in southern Africa as well as the country’s foremost centre for industry, commerce and finance. Indeed, its growth was so phenomenal that it rapidly transformed from a tented camp in 1886, to a settlement of shimmering but impermanent corrugated iron structures in 1886, to a fully fledged town of permanent brick-and-mortar multi-storey buildings in 1890. Confidence in its future was hardly dented when its payable gold deposits began to run out in the early 1890s, and when the MacArthur-Forrest method of extracting gold at depth was introduced in 1891, its future was finally assured. Inner City Movement Framework | THE SOUTH AFRICAN INFORMAL CITY. Reading and Re-writing, Johannesburg Inner City, 2011 Consultants: Arcus Gibb Engineering, Albonico Sack Metacity (ASM) Architects & Urban Designers with Solam Mkhabela and Marcel Zimmermann.
Funders: The Johannesburg Development Agency (JDA), The Johannesburg Road Agency (JRA) and The City of Johannesburg Department of Transport, Planning & Urban Management The city is an amalgamation of complex layers of people, trade, movement, ever changing requirements and functions, the formal and the informal. All these layers are overlapped and entangled, making them, at times, indistinguishable from one another. At the core of the city are its networks. These complex connections are played out on the canvas of the modernist city grid, structuring sets of relations, defining the activities and interactions between the formal and informal and shaping the "ordinary", everyday contested spaces. The ever evolving purpose and life of a city was one of the key design informants in this research.
Inner City Movement Framework | THE SOUTH AFRICAN INFORMAL CITY. Reflections on the Colonial State, in South Africa and Elsewhere: Factions, Fragments, Facts and Fictions - Social Identities - Volume 4, Issue 3. Territorial Reviews: Gauteng city-region, South Africa. Key Facts | Key Policy issues | Recommendations | Table of contents How to obtain this book | Contact Basic statistics of the Gauteng city-region Against the backdrop of South Africa’s achievements since the fall of apartheid, this Review evaluates measures to position economic development policy and to confront economic inequality in Gauteng. The issues of adequate housing as a catalyst of economic development and a vehicle for socioeconomic integration, transport mobility and public service delivery are examined in detail. The Review also assesses the economic growth potential of the manufacturing and green sectors, as well as governance issues, focussing on the potential of intergovernmental collaboration in advancing a cross-cutting regional approach for Gauteng.
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‘Even though something can be inserted easily enough into the mirror, none of us knows precisely how and when it can be taken out again. Do mirrors have looking-glasses too, deeper layers, echoes perhaps incessantly sounding the fathomless? ' ‘Then only does he see, low in the night on the sea, quite close in the dark here, not much further than a scream away, rising in their wake, screw-thud by screw-thud exactly duplicated, the other ship.' From: Breyten Breytenbach, Mouroir. Index.html. Social and economic anthropology, money and culture, household and gender; West Africa Jane I. Guyer is a Professor of Anthropology. She came to the Hopkins department from Northwestern University in 2002, having served previously on the faculties of Harvard and Boston University. Her research career has been devoted to economic transformations in West Africa, particularly the productive economy, the division of labor and the management of money. Theoretically she focuses on the interface between formal and informal economies, and particularly the instabilities that interface gives rise to.
In 2008 she was elected to the National Academy of Sciences (Anthropology Section). She serves on several national and international committees, including: A long term involvement with African Studies has fostered her interest in the humanities and arts. On Production, Past and Present: * Family and Farm in Southern Cameroon. 1984. . * Time and African Land Use.
Exhibits: * 1986 To Dance the Spirit.