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October 18, 2022

South Africa’s biggest cities are out of water, but the dams are full: what’s gone wrong

Anja du Plessis, University of South Africa

There’s an urgent need to put water higher on South Africa’s agenda. Various water problems are escalating at a rapid rate.

Demolition of uninhabited shacks in Bloekombos, Kraaifontein, Cape Town, August 6, 2020. The land, which was to be developed as a community facility for neighbouring communities, has been illegally occupied by people who have been demarcating plots and building informal settlements. Rodger Bosch/AFP

March 25, 2021

Can social housing help South Africa overcome its legacy of apartheid?

Irène Salenson, Agence française de développement (AFD); Andreas Scheba, Human Sciences Research Council; Ivan Turok, Human Sciences Research Council, and Justin Visagie, Human Sciences Research Council

Despite millions of free homes built since 1994, spatial inequality in South Africa remains high. A study evaluating a programme to boost rentals in well-located areas found mixed results, however.

Johannesburg is the most preferred destination for jobseekers from other provinces, followed by Cape Town. Waldo Swiegers/Bloomberg via Getty Images

January 20, 2021

South African internal migrants fare better in the job market in two regions

Derek Yu, University of the Western Cape

Labour migrants from other provinces into Gauteng and the Western Cape are more likely to be employed than the two provinces’ permanent residents.

Typical mass housing units in South Africa. Filckr/IGN11

September 21, 2017

South Africa’s housing challenge seen through the lens of its third largest city

Glen Robbins, University of Amsterdam

Durban one of South Africa’s third largest cities, by population has reported that the number of people living in informal dwellings has remained stubbornly high.

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