Environmental Health Problems in Hout Bay: The Challenge of Generalising Trust in South Africa

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Title:	Environmental Health Problems in Hout Bay: The Challenge of Generalising Trust in South Africa
Author:	Froestad, Jan
Year:	2005
Periodical:	Journal of Southern African Studies
Volume:	31
Issue:	2
Period:	June
Pages:	333-356
Language:	English
Geographic term:	South Africa
Subjects:	public health environmental management social relations State-society relationship suburban areas Health and Nutrition Ethnic and Race Relations Peoples of Africa (Ethnic Groups)
External link:	https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/03057070500109540
Abstract:	There is a fundamental need in postapartheid South Africa to build new relations of trust between previously segmented communities, within both State and society and along the vertical axis of State-society interaction. Drawing on observations from the health sector, particularly in relation to environmental health problems in Hout Bay, the article argues that processes of marginalization and segmentation, domination and patronage continue to undermine cross-community trust, and that neither 'republican top-down institution building' nor 'civic bottom-up' approaches to relations of trust are as yet in evidence. Notes, ref., sum. [Journal abstract]