The Effects of Informal Settlement on Suburban Property Values in Cape Town, South Africa

1998 ◽  
Vol 50 (4) ◽  
pp. 449-464 ◽  
Author(s):  
Grant Saff
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Informal Settlement ◽  
Property Values ◽  
Cape Town

scholarly journals Informal settlement upgrading and safety: experiences from Cape Town, South Africa

2016 ◽  
Vol 32 (3) ◽  
pp. 471-493 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mercy Brown-Luthango ◽  
Elena Reyes ◽  
Mntungwa Gubevu
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Informal Settlement ◽  
Cape Town

scholarly journals Ramener la justice sociale au centre de la carte  : propositions pour un renouvellement critique de la cartographie participative axée sur l'<i>empowerment</i>

2020 ◽  
Vol 75 (3) ◽  
pp. 271-284
Author(s):  
Jennifer Barella
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Social Justice ◽  
Power Relations ◽  
Informal Settlement ◽  
Cape Town ◽  
Participatory Mapping ◽  
Justice Sociale ◽  
Starting Point

Abstract. This paper discusses the need for a deeper critical interrogation of participatory mapping (PM) method as a tool for social justice. This stance is informed by the author's involvement in a NGO and community-led PM project in an informal settlement in Khayelitsha (Cape Town, South Africa). The paper argues that academic PM literature is ill-equipped to truly examine its potential for social justice. Firstly, this is due to the PM empowerment framework having shifted from an emancipatory aim to a governing tool. Secondly, this shift does not allow for the consideration of the power relations inherent to PM to be engaged with. This paper concludes by engaging the three epistemological and postcolonial roots of PM in order to provide a starting point for (re)centering PM on social justice.

scholarly journals Pay as You Go: Prepaid Metering and Electricity Expenditures in South Africa

2015 ◽  
Vol 105 (5) ◽  
pp. 237-241 ◽  
Author(s):  
B. Kelsey Jack ◽  
Grant Smith
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Socioeconomic Status ◽  
Developing World ◽  
Property Values ◽  
Cape Town ◽  
Purchase Behavior ◽  
Technological Solution ◽  
Electricity Access

High rates of customer default on utility bills present a barrier to the expansion of electricity access in the developing world. Pre-paid electricity metering offers a technological solution to ensuring timely payment. Using an eleven-year panel of pre-paid electricity customers in Cape Town, South Africa, we describe patterns of purchase behavior across property values, our measure of socioeconomic status. Poorer households buy electricity more often, in smaller increments, and are most likely to buy on payday. These patterns suggest difficulties smoothing income, and reveal a preference for small, frequent purchases that is incompatible with a standard monthly electricity billing cycle.

Time and Latitude in South Africa

1972 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
pp. 27-38
Author(s):  
J. Hers
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Cape Town ◽  
Astronomical Observations ◽  
Royal Observatory ◽  
The Republic ◽  
Astronomical Determination ◽  
Limited Accuracy ◽  
Better Than

In South Africa the modern outlook towards time may be said to have started in 1948. Both the two major observatories, The Royal Observatory in Cape Town and the Union Observatory (now known as the Republic Observatory) in Johannesburg had, of course, been involved in the astronomical determination of time almost from their inception, and the Johannesburg Observatory has been responsible for the official time of South Africa since 1908. However the pendulum clocks then in use could not be relied on to provide an accuracy better than about 1/10 second, which was of the same order as that of the astronomical observations. It is doubtful if much use was made of even this limited accuracy outside the two observatories, and although there may – occasionally have been a demand for more accurate time, it was certainly not voiced.

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