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Showing 1 to 20 of 34 for “"Group areas"”.
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An evaluation of aspects of group areas legislation in South Africa
In this study an evaluation of the Group Areas Act as a major piece of 'governmental law' is undertaken. The Act (originally introduced in 1950) is a prime example of what may be termed governmental law because it constitutes the centre-piece of a comprehensive legislative and administrative regime …
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More than an apartheid loss : recovering and remembering Fairview, a 'lost' Group Areas history
Against the background of the Group Areas Act (1950) and the consequent forced removals this thesis recovers the history of Fairview, Port Elizabeth. I examine how this neighbourhood is remembered through oral histories, family photographs and memory maps, alongside archival, media and literary …
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The Group Areas Act and Port Elizabeth's heritage: a study of memorial recollection in the South End Museum
The second half of the 1990's was marked by a significant reworking of memory and history in South Africa. WHilst the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) was involved in its hearings on amnesty applications and gross human rights violations, new museums were emerging and older ones began …
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The palaces of memory: a reconstruction of District One, Cape Town, before and after the Group Areas Act
This thesis started off as a biographical discussion on my association with District One. I was able to widen the scope of this thesis as my research brought more information to light with regard to the city�s past. The dramatic uncovering of the Prestwich burial ground and subsequent struggles …
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Muslim residential patterns in Cape Town: an examination of the changes and continuities in the Cape Town Muslim community
… the Muslim community in Cape Town prior to the Group Areas Act, as a result of the Group Areas Act, and currently in 2013. It also explores how the Muslim community has transformed as a result of these changing residential patterns. This thesis confronts the question of where have Muslims been …
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Invisible villages: changing residential patterns and relationships in a rural village
… on the effects of the implementation of the Group Areas Act in the village in 1969 and the change from an apparently integrated agricultural settlement to a highly differentiated holiday and retirement resort. This thesis questions the validity of the term "community" within the constraints …
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The history of the Mthiyane people who were removed from Richards Bay to Ntambanana wendsday 6 January 1976
… etc. It is also interesting to indicate that the Group Areas Act, which strongly manifested itself through force removal was forcefully implemented in moving the original inhabitants of Richards Bay.
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An investigation into the principles and management of assisted self help housing with specific reference to the Steenberg area a scheme, Retreat
… enough is experienced by persons of lower income groups. The current backlog is estimated by a number of sources to be between 500 000 and 800 000 units nationally, and it is projected that in excess of 3 million units will be required by the turn of the century. The reasons for this trend are …
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My mom is not interested : a case study of a daughter and her intellectually disabled mother
… have been under siege of the apartheid group areas act, migrant labour, endemic poverty, widespread HIV/Aids and ongoing political uncertainty. As disorganised attachments in early life result in complex relational disturbance, this research paper commences with a detailed review of the …
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An exploratory study of the psycho-social factors contributing to resilience amongst coloured adolescent females in the Mitchell’s Plain suburb of Cape Town.
… of Cape Town during the implementation of the Group Areas Act, is one that is particularly characterized by these many social challenges. Nevertheless, some children and young people do well in life, especially in academic domains, in spite of inadequate, traumatic or less opportune …
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The muslim judicial council - A descriptive and analytical investigation
This thesis proposes to investigate the application of the Shari'a or Islamic Law in South Africa. To this end, the work of the Cape Town-based Muslim Judicial Council, which follows the Shafi's school of thought, is focussed on. Perspectives gained from the history of Islam at the Cape reveal the …
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History, identity and meaning : Cape Town's Coon Carnival in the 1960s and 1970s
… declared for "White" residence only under the Group Areas Act. Coloured residents were forcibly removed from this central city suburb to disparate areas on the Cape Flats - the townships surrounding the metropolis. A year later, in 1967, the carnival parade was effectively banned from the city …
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Threads of place: understanding the intangible memories of space and place – the case of Stellenbosch
… that was declared a white-only area due to the Group Areas Act of 1950. At the start of democracy, those dispossessed had the opportunity to claim land that was lost during the forced removals (Du Toit, 2010). Despite this, there is a continued spatial disjunction and fraction that echoes that …
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Race, class and spatial polarisation in the greater Cape Town
… A new government came into power in 1994 and the Group Areas Act had been abolished. Recent reports demonstrate that there is an aggressive spatial distribution of private sector investment directed to the north, south and western affluent suburbs while the south-east townships, where the vast …
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Exploring Intimate Partner Violence Survivors' Experiences of an Intervention Programme at the Mosaic Training, Service and Healing Centre
… impact of Apartheid legislation, namely, the Group Areas Act, and the absence of fundamental resources in rural locations, has restricted the opportunities for black women from resource-poor rural areas to seek interventions for IPV. The aim of the study was to examine the way in which …
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(Un)Homely in Cape Town: contested space and the post-apartheid urban narrative
… of the apartheid government in the form of the Group Areas Act (1950). As a postcolonial and post-apartheid city, Cape Town has the distinction of evolving from pre-apartheid's least segregated city to apartheid's most segregated city, with many of the injustices of the past perpetuated in the …
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Race and the post-Fordist spatial order in Cape Town
… shows that, in middle-class, former whites-only areas, decentralised employment nodes have developed. These middle-class residents are still largely white. However, other former white Group Areas nearby, which have experienced significant desegregation, are located along the railway lines in both …
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District 1: Mapping memories of an erased space in a transforming post-apartheid city
… The area was desecrated because of the Group Areas Act, with a large portion of the historic urban landscape demolished and the community displaced to various parts of the Cape Flats1 . Intangible and tangible heritage will be used to establish how heritage mechanisms can facilitate …
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The Making of Pretoria as the Citadel of Apartheid, 1948-73
… favouring white employment, whitening urban areas through the mass relocation of black people to newly established ethnic homelands, separating educational facilities on the basis of race and making use of excessive violence to suppress political dissent. This was done through the …
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A city walkable: [Re]Imagining spatial justice through access and public space in North End, East London
… mixed-use neighbourhood. However, due to the Group Areas Act of 1950, people were forcibly removed from the city and relocated to what is now known as townships. Due to this removal people are forced to rely on public transport or private vehicle for mobility. Townships are not mixed-use, and …
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