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Title: | Why the homeless rebel: housing struggles in post-apartheid South Africa |
Author: | Thomas, Christopher G. |
Year: | 2010 |
Periodical: | African Historical Review (ISSN 1753-2531) |
Volume: | 42 |
Issue: | 2 |
Pages: | 27-47 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | South Africa |
Subjects: | housing policy housing shortage social and economic rights |
External link: | https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/17532523.2010.517402 |
Abstract: | Post-apartheid housing struggles urgently need to be addressed in order to consolidate the inclusivist democracy in South Africa. Former white minority governments restricted housing in order to control the movement of Africans and their labour. This paper analyses aspects of post-apartheid housing protest. The argument is that such protests are rooted in a problematic rights discourse of the anti-apartheid struggle, and in the new constitution's recognition of the right of access to adequate housing, which is nonetheless subjected to fiscal constraints. The article's second focus is on a legacy of land dispossession, which also hinders housing delivery. Failure to realize the right to housing fuels some of the most important conflicts that will shape future organization of State institutions and relations between the State and society in South Africa. Bibliogr., notes, ref., sum. [Journal abstract] |