Die rol van bantoesake-administrasierade in bantoebehuising in Suid-Afrika met spesiale verwysing na die Wes-Transvaalse Bantoesake-administrasieraad

Obj ect of the investigation Labour and housing go hand in hand. In the i ns t ance where the Bantu from the homeland sells his l abour to the Whites in the White areas, adequa t e measures must be taken to provide hygienic and a ttractive housing conditions for the Bantu. An attempt must be made that the sojourn of the Bantu in the White areas will cause pleasant memories whenever he recalls the interim period during which it was necessary for him to stay in a White area until such time as his own homeland will develop into economic viability and when it will be possible f or him to return to his homeland of his own free will, or a lternatively until rapid transport has r e ached such an advanced stage that it will be po s sible for him to commute daily between the home= land and hi s work . It will, however, be quite a while before the resett lement of Bantu families in their respective homel ands will become an established fact. There are even persons who are doubtful if this ideal will ever be attained. Now is the time that the 282 relative permanence of certain urban Bantu residen= tial areas must be assumed in all earnestness . Attention must also be paid to the social evils stemming from the overpopulation of the Bantu resi= dential areas and the gradual infiltration of nocturnal Bantu sleepers into White re s identi a l areas . The object of this investigation was to determine : (a) if the problem of inadequate housing facilities exists in urban Bantu residential areas; and (b) if there is a demand for additional Bantu housing and if so, for what type of housing such a demand exists. It was also attempted to probe the Bantu's opinion as regards the standard of the existing available housing. The study was undertaken to ascertain the needs of the Bantu insofar as both quality and quantity of housing are concerned. Furthermore, the rate at which housing for the Bantu is being provided was taken into account. By means of projections into the future, an attempt was made to assess the required rate at which housing should be provided in order to meet the growing needs of the urban Bantu. The type, size and standard of housing offered to the Bantu was also reviewed in order to determine the interaction between supply and demand. In order to obtain an over-all picture of the Bantu housing problem in the Republic, the activities of the 22 Bantu Affairs Administration Boards , which only recently commenced operations, were studied. Lastly, the activities of the Western Transvaal Bantu Affairs Board were studied in detail. Special attention was paid to the function of this Board in providing housing for the Bantu in the White areas and the assistance which the said Board (as agent of the South African Bantu Trust) rendered in connection with homeland development. 2. Method of investigation Use was made of primary as well as secondary methods in carrying out this study. Primary research was based on practical data collected by means of five questionnaires, which formed the nucleus of the investigation. In addition, an attempt was made to learn more about the ways of living and thinking of the Bantu. This was achieved by means of numerous interviews and the results were incorporated in the finding s in a practical way. As regards secondary methods, use was chiefly made of the official information supplied by the Department of Statistics, the Human Sciences Research Council, the South African Bureau of Racial Affairs and the various Bantu Affairs Administration Boards. Existing literature was studied and special use was made of publications of the National Building Research Institute of the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research in order to gain the necessary background for the whole study - 3. Results of the investigation 3.1 Whithin the area under the jurisdiction of the Western Transvaal Bantu Affairs Administration Board the following numbers of Bantu are encountered : (a) in the prescribed area 167 874 ; (b) in the non-prescribed area 481 023; and (c) on mining properties 13 7 929. The Tswana population group comprises 72% of the total Bantu population in the white area in the Western Transvaal. 3.2 Only 2.0,93% of the Bantu families living in urban Bantu residential areas in Western Transvaal are prepared to move voluntarily to their homeland There is an official waiting list for only 5 ,1% of the Bantu population in the Western Transvaal for homeland resettlement. This poor reaction is ascribed to the absence of a proper homeland trans= port service and the fact that large tracts of Bophuthatswana are not economically viable for the Bantu in urban areas. 3.3 Amongst the Bantu in the White area there exists a positive demand for housing and there is also an alarmingly high trend to over-population as such amongst the Bantu. An official waiting list for approximately 5 200 dwellings and 5 300 hostel beds is being kept by the Western Transvaal Bantu Affairs Administration Boards for the 26 Bantu residential areas under its jurisdiction . In the latter areas 32 605 persons board with relatives on a single basis. On White premises in Western Transvaal an estimated 12 745 Bantu spend the night legally and an estimated 1 662 illegally as a result of the housing shortage.........

Grantor dc:publisher

North-West University (South Africa)

Year dc:date.issued

1975

Author dc:creator

• Oosthuysen, Jacobus Hendrik

Advisor dc:contributor.advisor

• Swart, N.J.

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other

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http://hdl.handle.net/10394/40313

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oai:repository.nwu.ac.za:10394/40313