scholarly journals Xenophobic attacks on foreign shop owners and street vendors in Louis Trichardt Central Business District, Limpopo Province

2015 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Kholofelo Mothibi ◽  
Cornelis Roelofse ◽  
Thompho Tshivhase
Keyword(s):  
Central Business District ◽  
Phenomenological Research ◽  
Limpopo Province ◽  
Street Vendors ◽  
Physically Abused ◽  
Scarce Resources ◽  
South Africans ◽  
Contributory Factors ◽  
Police Action ◽  
Business District

Xenophobic attacks in South Africa in 2008 and 2015 sent shockwaves through the country and the world. In these events, around 70 people were killed while thousands were displaced; and, property and products of street vendors and shop owners were destroyed. This phenomenological research project is confined to Louis Trichardt in Limpopo Province wherefrom a cohort of foreign street vendors and shop owners were interviewed. The lived experiences of being verbally and physically abused as well as of some acquaintances being killed, has clearly left them traumatised and living in fear. The article finds that contributory factors to xenophobic attacks experienced by foreign shop owners and street vendors range from competition over scarce resources, stereotypes and inter-group anxiety. Finally, it offers some recommendations about education for South Africans and measured police action.

REALITIES AND DISCOURSES ON SOUTH AFRICAN XENOPHOBIA

2020 ◽  
Vol 37 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Heribert Adam ◽  
Kogila Moodley
Keyword(s):  
South African ◽  
Family Cohesion ◽  
Central Business District ◽  
Western Cape ◽  
Mob Violence ◽  
Moral Legitimacy ◽  
Armed Struggle ◽  
South Africans ◽  
Slum Dwellers ◽  
Business District

The responses to the January 2015 looting of foreign-owned shops inSoweto and in April in Durban's central business district and elsewhere reveal more about the South African national consciousness than the events themselves. The ritual condemnations; the initial denial of xenophobia in preference to labelling it criminality; blaming victims and convoluted excuses of perpetrators are almost worse than the official silence and long-standing passivity about well-known xenophobic attitudes. When the President insists that "South Africans in general are not xenophobic", he ignores all surveys (Afrobarometer) showing a vast majority distrust (black) foreigners, wish to restrict their residence rights and prohibit the eventual acquisition of citizenship.On these scores South African attitudes are not unique. Antiimmigrant hostility inflicts most European societies. Perhaps suspicion of strangers is even universal: preferential kin selection as an evolutionaryadvantage, as sociobiologists assert. What is uniquely South African is the ferocious mob violence against fellow Africans. Why? The structural violence of apartheid laws has continued in the post-apartheid era for many reasons: the breakdown of family cohesion in poor areas which no longer shames brutalised youngsters; loss of moral legitimacy by government institutions, particularly a dysfunctional justice system; violence was glorified in the 'armed struggle', but, above all, marginalised slum dwellers learned that they only receive attention when they act destructively. Despite a rule bound constitution for conflict resolution, in a representative survey (Afrobarometer) 43 per cent in the Western Cape agreed with the suggestion that "it is sometimes necessary to use violence in support for a just cause".

scholarly journals Visitor Satisfaction with a Public Green Infrastructure and Urban Nature Space in Perth, Western Australia

Land ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 159 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jackie Parker ◽  
Greg Simpson
Keyword(s):  
Western Australia ◽  
Green Infrastructure ◽  
Central Business District ◽  
Self Report ◽  
Urban Nature ◽  
Urban Centers ◽  
Scarce Resources ◽  
Visitor Satisfaction ◽  
Business District

The widely applied Importance-Performance Analysis (IPA) provides relatively simple and straightforward techniques to assess how well the attributes of a good or service perform in meeting the expectations of consumers, clients, users, and visitors. Surprisingly, IPA has rarely been applied to inform the management of urban public green infrastructure (PGI) or urban nature (UN) spaces. This case study explores the visitor satisfaction levels of people using a PGI space that incorporates UN, close to the central business district of Perth, Western Australia. With diminishing opportunities to acquire new PGI spaces within ever more densely populated urban centers, understanding, efficiently managing, and continuously improving existing spaces is crucial to accessing the benefits and services that PGI and UN provide for humankind. An intercept survey conducted within the Lake Claremont PGI space utilized a self-report questionnaire to gather qualitative and quantitative data (n = 393). This case study demonstrates how the IPA tool can assist urban planners and land managers to collect information about the attributes of quality PGI and UN spaces to monitor levels of service, to increase overall efficiency of site management, to inform future management decisions, and to optimize the allocation of scarce resources. The satisfaction of PGI users was analyzed using the IPA tool to determine where performance and/or resourcing of PGI attributes were not congruent with the expectations of PGI users (generally in the form of over-servicing or under-servicing). The IPA demonstrated that a majority of PGI users perceived the study site to be high performing and were satisfied with many of the assessed attributes. The survey identified the potential for some improvement of the amenity and/or infrastructure installations at the site, as well as directing attention towards a more effective utilization of scarce resources. Optimizing the management of PGI spaces will enhance opportunities for individuals to obtain the physiological, psychological, and emotional benefits that arise from experiencing quality urban PGI spaces. This case study promotes the important contribution that high-quality PGI spaces, which include remnant and restored UN spaces, make to the development of resilient and sustainable urban centers.

scholarly journals Thohoyandou’s central business district and the hypothetical accessibility challenges for emergency services

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Godfrey Anyumba
Keyword(s):  
Emergency Services ◽  
Central Business District ◽  
Limpopo Province ◽  
Hypothetical Situation ◽  
Case Scenario ◽  
Open Spaces ◽  
Worst Case ◽  
Retail Development ◽  
Potential Risks ◽  
Business District

Thohoyandou is a town in the Limpopo province of South Africa, with a population of 69 453 according to 2011 Census. It has rapidly filled up the spatial limits of its central business district (CBD) to such an extent that the latest retail development, the Thavhani Mall, has leapfrogged the P-East residential area into the open spaces to the south of the CBD across the R 254. The objective of this study was to determine if emergency services - that is, police, ambulance and fire brigade - could access all parts of the CBD in a hypothetical situation of multiple disasters occurring simultaneously. The study method mapped the CBD’s urban morphological elements and determined, through qualitative descriptions, the frictional spaces each of the emergency services would face in attempting to access all parts of the CBD. The findings were, firstly, that in a ‘worst case scenario’ the emergency services would face formidable infrastructure, human and mobility obstacles in their pathways. The second finding is that the emergency services would not be able to cope with a high-impact disaster or a multiplicity of disasters. The study identified precautions that should be considered by the municipality and other stakeholders in order to mitigate the potential risks of human-induced disasters in the CBD.

Why Local Regulations May Matter Less Than We Think: Street Vending in Chicago and in Durham, North Carolina

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nina Martin
Keyword(s):  
Policy Issue ◽  
Central Business District ◽  
Street Vendors ◽  
Street Vending ◽  
Food Trucks ◽  
Two Cities ◽  
Structural Inequities ◽  
Business District ◽  
Liberal Policy ◽  
The U.S

Regulating food trucks and street vendors is a policy issue facing many cities across the U.S. This paper compares the street vending regulations in Chicago, IL and Durham, NC, cities which have pursued opposing approaches. Chicago, IL maintains a strict policy, while Durham has a liberal policy towards the sale of street foods. Despite the regulatory variation, similar inequities among groups of street vendors exist. Namely, both cities have a set of gourmet food trucks that operate in the central business district and gentrifying neighbourhoods, and a set of immigrant vendors that are excluded from these spaces. Regulation, therefore, cannot be credited with reducing inequities in the bifurcated labour practices of the street vending industry. Rather, variation in regulation is found to have minimal influence on the practices of street vendors across the two cities. Therefore, changing regulations from restrictive to liberal is an imperfect solution, contrary to the findings of much of the literature. Instead, structural inequities between vendors should be addressed.

scholarly journals Improving the capacity and operational efficiency of an on-street parking system using data-based parking management strategies: case study of watt market in Calabar, South-South Nigeria

2020 ◽  
Vol 39 (2) ◽  
pp. 344-350
Author(s):  
G.S. Ukam
Keyword(s):  
Management Strategies ◽  
Central Business District ◽  
Operational Efficiency ◽  
License Plate ◽  
Scarce Resources ◽  
Parking System ◽  
Parking Management ◽  
The Difference ◽  
Using Data ◽  
Business District

Solving parking challenges in a manner that is sustainable would require a shift from using up more scarce land resources in providing supply to meet an unending demand for parking. Parking management is the approach of tackling parking challenges that efficiently utilizes scarce resources to meet demand in a sustainable way. This paper studied an on-street parking system in the central business district with the aim of proffering  policies and strategies that can help improve the capacity and operational efficiency of the park. Parking inventory and the license plate method were employed in analyzing the parking characteristics of the park. By introducing a parking duration restriction, more capacity could be  accommodated on the current available lots. A 90-minute limit would accommodate at least 106 more vehicles and increase the turnover from 13 to 14 vehicles per lot for the duration of survey, thus improving operational capacity and efficiency. The paper shows that parking management  strategies that are effective in making the difference should be employed based on adequate field surveys, observations and analysis. Keywords: On street parking, parking capacity, parking management, Parking survey, License plate

scholarly journals Privatisasi Ruang Publik dari Civic Centre menjadi Central Business District ( Belajar dari kasus Kawasan Simpang Lima Semarang)

2014 ◽  
Vol 16 (3) ◽  
pp. 153
Author(s):  
Edi Purwanto
Keyword(s):  
Public Space ◽  
Heavy Traffic ◽  
Central Business District ◽  
Public Place ◽  
Street Vendors ◽  
Commercial Activities ◽  
The People ◽  
Parking Lot ◽  
Business District ◽  
The Impact

Based on The Master Plan of Semarang City from 1975 to 2005, Simpang Lima area has been established as a Civic Centre area which its development is aimed to be a culture area broadly creating public activities for the people. During its development, due to its enormous economic potential, this area has turned into Central Business District area having several characteristics such as commercial activities, multi-storied buildings, heavy traffic, teeming street vendors and others. The impact is privatization of public space in the form of occupying of lots/buildings done by a group of businessmen owning shopping centers/hotels, using of roads for parking lot, and occupancy of pedestrian ways for street vendors. The public place privatization has prevented people to use public space freely. This problem is worthy of study. Public place privatization widely influences people because on the one hand, public place gives important meaning to people in the context of purpose, social, culture, history, and politics; on the other hand, these people will also give special meaning to this place. This study uses descriptive approach which describes and interprets the problem of public space privatization in Simpang Lima area including its impact.

scholarly journals Symptoms of accounting practices that contribute to small business failures

2016 ◽  
Vol 14 (4) ◽  
pp. 194-202 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jubilant J. Sibanda ◽  
David Charles Manda
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
Central Business District ◽  
Business Environment ◽  
Jel Classification ◽  
Limpopo Province ◽  
Medium Size ◽  
Record Keeping ◽  
Business Failures ◽  
Business District

The purpose of this study was to examine and evaluate SMEs’ implementation of minimum accounting practices which are some of the real underlying symptoms that lead to small and medium-size (SMEs) business failures, especially in rural and semi-urban areas. The study was conducted in Thohoyandou, the Central Business District (CBD) of Thulamela Municipality in the Vhembe district in Limpopo province, South Africa. The study used data based on responses to a structured questionnaire from randomly selected SMEs in Thohoyandou, an area whose SME business environment is similar to the challenges and opportunities faced by many other rural and semi-urban areas in South Africa. Due to cost and time constraints, the study sample was limited to 40 SMEs. The study findings confirm that SMEs often fail to comply with fundamental accounting practices like maintaining complete accounting records, which limits business information vital for decision making, as they think there is no need to keep them and that it exposes their financial position. The relevance of the study is to show how non-adherence to adequate accounting practices can negatively affect SMEs financial performance which consequently contribute to their inevitable failure. The study recommends development of training policy guidelines to sensitize SMEs of the need to comply with relevant accounting practices including internal controls and the legal requirements. Keywords: accounting practices, SMEs, symptoms, record keeping, failures. JEL Classification: M41

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