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South Africa's Magnifying Glass
South Africa's transformation to democracy has highlighted the need for reliable socio-economic information and analysis to inform the process of meeting our numerous and complex development challenges.
Social cohesion in Gauteng
Increasing attacks on foreigners, including in April 2015, along with a succession of widely publicised incidents of racism, have triggered a new round of soul-searching in South Africa. Why, after the comprehensive defeat of apartheid and its ideology, does prejudice seem so intractable? What kinds of interventions could help reduce these troubling events? How can society be made more ‘cohesive’? Suggestions about what to do in the face of these challenges are sometimes speculative and wishful. They consist of appeals to the better nature of ordinary people, or an assumption that the feel good moments of the democratic transition can be re-enacted to bind everyone together. Calls for so...
OECD Territorial Reviews: The Gauteng City-Region, South Africa 2011
Against the backdrop of South Africa’s achievements since the fall of apartheid, this Review evaluates measures to position economic development policy and to confront economic inequality in the Johannesburg/Pretoria region.
Historical Dictionary of Greater Johannesburg
In just over a century of existence, Johannesburg, the "City of Gold," has played a vital role in the development of South Africa. Today, it is the center of Gauteng, the province which serves as the economic heart of the entire region. The city continues to exert influence over the whole of the African sub-continent. Johannesburg's evolution in the last two decades provide important insights into the transformation of South Africa as a whole. The Dictionary is of great value to readers who wish to understand events that shaped South Africa in the successive eras of gold discovery, British colonization, Nationalist Party apartheid legislation, and transformation under the aegis of the Africa...
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The Changing Space Economy of City-Regions
This book addresses the South African Space Economy and its stark disparities and dualisms through an assessment of the Gauteng City-Region – the largest economic agglomeration in the country and on a continent bedevilled by a myriad of development challenges. The book’s focus on understanding the overall character of Gauteng City-Region’s Space Economy – through data mining/analysis and mapping – comprehensively supplements the Space Economy literature on the region. It covers the disparities exacerbated by an overlay of apartheid planning ideology and top-down regional development based on selective encouragement of manufacturing investments in growth points or poles and how impl...
Gauteng A-Z
Gauteng A-Z by Sean Fraser is an indispensable, user-friendly guide to Johannesburg, Pretoria and their immediate surrounds, featuring: a comprehensive alphabetical listing of attractions, from parks and reserves to cultural institutions, architecture, fine wining and dining, nightlife, theatres, galleries, shopping malls, markets, festivals, adventure activities and more; contact details and opening times; a star rating system that enables the visitor to prioritise activities based on time available; a category index to cater for interests, preferences, company, weather or mood; and informative Gauteng, Johannesburg and Pretoria maps. Sean Fraser is a veteran travel writer and the author of a number of reference, travel and guide books, including Cape Town A–Z and Seven Days in Cape Town, both published by Random House Struik.
Greater Than a Tourist- Johannesburg Gauteng South Africa
Are you excited about planning your next trip? Do you want to try something new? Would you like some guidance from a local? If you answered yes to any of these questions, then this Greater Than a Tourist book is for you. Greater Than a Tourist- Johannesburg Gauteng South Africa by Micheline Logan offers the inside scoop on Johannesburg. Most travel books tell you how to travel like a tourist. Although there is nothing wrong with that, as part of the Greater Than a Tourist series, this book will give you travel tips from someone who has lived at your next travel destination. In these pages, you will discover advice that will help you throughout your stay. This book will not tell you exact addresses or store hours but instead will give you excitement and knowledge from a local that you may not find in other smaller print travel books. Travel like a local. Slow down, stay in one place, and get to know the people and the culture. By the time you finish this book, you will be eager and prepared to travel to your next destination.
South Africa and Its People
This work looks at South Africa and its people including all the racial and ethnic groups in all the provinces and their different cultures. It's also a general historical background of South Africa since the founding of the country. Also the country's natural resources in every province is one of the subjects covered in the book. African immigrants in South Africa, a relatively new group in the country especially since the end of apartheid, is another subject addressed by the author. And there's much more that's covered in this work.
