scholarly journals Hotel location in Africa’s world class city: The case of Johannesburg, South Africa

2014 ◽  
Vol 25 (25) ◽  
pp. 181-196 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jayne M. Rogerson
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Developing Countries ◽  
Urban Tourism ◽  
Complex Pattern ◽  
The Past ◽  
Changing Patterns ◽  
World Class ◽  
Hotel Investment ◽  
The City

Abstract Urban tourism is of rising importance for economic and tourism geographers. One of the most important elements for urban tourism is the hotel economy. Against a backdrop of international debates around the location of hotels in cities in both developed and developing countries this article unpacks the changing geography of hotels in South Africa’s largest city, Johannesburg for the period 1990 to 2010. Johannesburg is one of the leading and growing destinations for urban tourism in South Africa. Its hotel scape has been radically transformed in the past two decades. It is shown that the shifting geography of hotel development in Johannesburg reveals a complex pattern of disinvestment in certain city spaces and subsequent reinvestment and re-vitalization of those spaces as well the changing patterns of hotel investment towards the new successful nodes of business and leisure tourism in the city.

Battered bodies: Characterizing Johannesburg’s apartheid past and present in Gavin Hood’s Tsotsi

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 213-228
Author(s):  
Addamms Mututa
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Historical Narratives ◽  
The Past ◽  
Black Characters ◽  
Black Bodies ◽  
Narrative Spaces ◽  
The City

Narratives of traumatic citizenship not only raise questions about the past, but also they give voice to contemporary stories about this past. In post-apartheid South Africa, these questions, markers of apartheid temporality, are embodied in, among other sites, the representation of battered Black bodies in cinema. This article critiques the characterization of Blacks as narrative spaces to illustrate the temporality of distress and trauma from apartheid to post-apartheid Johannesburg in Gavin Hood’s Tsotsi. It argues that the film posits Black characters as latent archives of intergenerational historical narratives that probe the apartheid past and speculate on the post-apartheid future in the city of Johannesburg. Consequently, the juxtaposition of embodied narrative archives and apartheid temporality, the article posits, is a crucial model in the theorization of battered Black bodies’ contiguous nostalgia.

Creating an enabling environment for urban tourism development: the future of Bangkok.

2021 ◽  
pp. 147-158
Author(s):  
Louisa Yee-Sum Lee ◽  
Philip L. Pearce
Keyword(s):  
Present State ◽  
Tourism Development ◽  
Urban Tourism ◽  
The Past ◽  
Enabling Environment ◽  
The Future ◽  
Private And Public ◽  
Public Sectors ◽  
The City ◽  
Depth Interviews

Abstract This chapter considers tourism development in Bangkok from the past to the present, and then ventures on to examine the city's future. The analysis introduces how the evolution of the city, its urbanization and the overall growth of Thai tourism more generally have shaped the present state of Bangkok. The chapter draws on existing literature augmented by in-depth interviews; specifically, six significant and influential interviewees from both the private and public sectors of Bangkok help reveal how the past and present are shaping the future of tourism in the city.

scholarly journals A comparison of rural crimes in Australia (NSW) and South Africa

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Willie Johannes Clack
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Developing Countries ◽  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
United Nations ◽  
Human Development ◽  
Human Development Index ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
The Past ◽  
The World ◽  
Different Levels

Rural criminology as a topic of scholarly study, neglected over the past two to three decades, has bounced into the spotlight, with claims now being made that rural criminology is receiving justified attention among the academic fraternity. This paper presents a comparative analysis of the major challenge facing two countries with different levels of development as identified by the United Nations Human Development Index. A predicament for rural criminology is that the world is not equal: rural crimes is researched in developed countries but not in developing countries. This paper compares the types and prevalence of agricultural crimes in Australia (NSW) and South Africa to determine whether significant differences or similarities exist.

Operations and Linkages: A Study of Nagaland’s Urban Informal Sector

2015 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 291-310
Author(s):  
Imlisunep Changkery ◽  
Chanchibemo Shiteo
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
Informal Sector ◽  
Urban Poor ◽  
High Growth ◽  
Formal Sector ◽  
Value Addition ◽  
The Past ◽  
The City ◽  
Urban Informal Sector

The urban informal sector has attracted renewed interest in the present day development circle despite the widely held notion in the past three decades that it would shrink once an economy achieved high growth. Due to its enormous capacity to sustain and provide livelihood to the urban poor, it is being reckoned as a significant sector in the economy of developing countries for providing income and alleviating poverty. This sector has its own characteristics that allow us to understand and explain it differently from the formal sector. This paper deals with the structure and characteristics of the urban informal sector in the city of Dimapur and examines the nature of the enterprises, the structure of its employment, capital, turnover and value addition. It also looks into the nature of linkages that it shares with the formal sector.

scholarly journals Attempts on the ‘life’ of Johannesburg: Ivan Vladislavić’s Use of the City Portrait Genre

2017 ◽  
Vol 55 ◽  
pp. 47-68
Author(s):  
Ewa Kębłowska-Ławniczak
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
South African ◽  
Double Negative ◽  
Traditional Practice ◽  
The Past ◽  
Changing Practice ◽  
Interdisciplinary Project ◽  
Ivan Vladislavic ◽  
The City ◽  
Selection Of

This article examines the changing practice of urban portraiture in reference to a selection of postmillennial texts written by Ivan Vladislavić. These generically diverse texts trace and reflect on transformations sweeping Johannesburg after the fall of Apartheid, to some extent a metonymic representation of South Africa. An immediate impulse to inquire whether and, if so, how the writer explores the boundaries of portraiture, derives from an explicit textual and visual thematisation of the practice in two of Vladislavić’s works, i.e. the collection of “verbal snapshots” entitled Portrait with Keys and his joint interdisciplinary project, TJ& Double Negative, involving the writer and David Goldblatt, a South African photographer. The article concentrates primarily on the uses and adaptations of the city portrait genre. Vladislavić’s foregrounding of the genre category invites us to consider a series of questions: How does Vladislavić proceed with the appropriation and transformation of the traditional practice of city portrait? Do the portrayals of Johannesburg merely address the past? To what extent does Vladislavić propose contemporary adaptations of the practice? What happens to such categories as realism, accuracy, and likeness? What knowledge does portraiture generate? Finally, the article reflects on whether Vladislavić responds to the need for a new epistemological project in rendering the urban.

scholarly journals GETTING INTO THE CITY BEAT: Challenges facing our metro police

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gareth Newham
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Crime Prevention ◽  
Police Officers ◽  
Traffic Control ◽  
Local Level ◽  
Good Reason ◽  
Police Departments ◽  
The Past ◽  
Police Agencies ◽  
The City

It has been a little over five years since metropolitan police departments were first established in South Africa. Despite relatively small numbers of operational personnel, they now form a familiar part of the policing landscape. With good reason, metro police officers do better at traffic control than crime prevention, and their relationship with the SAPS needs attention. This article reflects on their achievements over the past years and some of the key challenges confronting these local level police agencies.

Collective opinion paper on findings of the 2011 convocation of experts on laboratory quality

2012 ◽  
Vol 50 (9) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ortwin Adams ◽  
Greg Cooper ◽  
Callum Fraser ◽  
Michael Hubmann ◽  
Graham Jones ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Clinical Laboratory ◽  
Quality System ◽  
Iso 15189 ◽  
The Past ◽  
Common Thread ◽  
Working Groups ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Common ◽  
The City

AbstractIn April of 2011, Bio-Rad Laboratories Quality System Division (Irvine, CA, USA) hosted its third annual convocation of experts on laboratory quality in the city of Salzburg, Austria. As in the past 2 years, over 60 experts from across Europe, Israel, USA and South Africa convened to discuss contemporary issues and topics of importance to the clinical laboratory. This year’s conference had EN/ISO 15189 and accreditation as the common thread for most discussions, with topics ranging from how to meet requirements like uncertainty to knowledge gained from those already accredited. The participants were divided into five discussion working groups (WG) with assigned topics. The outcome of these discussions is the subject of this summary.

Sustainability of composting as an alternative waste management option for developing countries: A case study of the City of Tshwane

2010 ◽  
Vol 29 (11) ◽  
pp. 1222-1231 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jacques Snyman ◽  
Kobus Vorster
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Developing Countries ◽  
Waste Management ◽  
Comparative Study ◽  
South African ◽  
Emerging Countries ◽  
Management Problem ◽  
Management Option ◽  
The City

Excessive MSW production is a growing management problem for cities in developing countries, such as South Africa. This study addresses these challenges with particular focus on the City of Tshwane. A major problem in Tshwane is that all the MSW generated in the city, including garden waste, is currently being landfilled. A waste stream analysis of Tshwane reveals the largest fraction of MSW is organic and biodegradable, and therefore suitable for compost production. The study proposes that Tshwane will have to address composting the biodegradable fraction of the MSW stream. This study attempts to understand the economics of composting practices in Tshwane, whether composting in Tshwane is financially viable. A comparative study, applying the dome aeration technology on a conventional static windrow, was conducted with the objective of investigating and proposing alternative improved composting technologies for green waste. Although the study focused on Tshwane, it can be argued that the findings could be implemented in any other South African municipality, and even implemented in other emerging countries.

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