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Title: | Home-ownership schemes for black mineworkers: overestimating and underplanning |
Author: | Laburn-Peart, Catherine |
Year: | 1990 |
Periodical: | Urban Forum |
Volume: | 1 |
Issue: | 2 |
Pages: | 69-82 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | South Africa |
Subjects: | miners housing gold mining |
External link: | https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF03036574 |
Abstract: | This article examines the home-ownership scheme adopted for its mineworkers by the Anglo American Corporation, a gold-mining company in South Africa. A study was carried out in 1988 to assess how best the Corporation could provide for the communities participating in the home-ownership scheme. J. Turner's (1968) model of the settlement process in 'transitional' countries was used, as well as his argument (1972) that housing should be viewed as a process and not as a commodity. One of Turner's aims was to draw attention to the ignorance on the part of planners in these countries of residential needs and priorities of the target populations. The paper concludes that the planners in the case of the Anglo American scheme appear to have overestimated their own understanding of the needs and priorities of participants, as well as the ability of participants to rid themselves of their dependency on the system created by a hundred years of mine paternalism. There also appears to have been an overestimation of State commitment to urbanization. If there has been overestimation, there has also been underplanning, in that the full range of housing and tenure options which might have been appropriate to the needs of workers has not been explored. Bibliogr. |