S um m ary. The abolition of the Grou p A reas Act in 1991 has, in the space of ® ve years, con trib uted to m ajor changes in the form er aparth eid cities of South Africa. However, the socio-p olitical tran sform ation that has tak en place has been exp erien ced differen tlyÐ as can b e seen , for exam ple, in Bloem fontein an d Pietersb urg, the cap itals of the F ree S tate and the N orth ern Provin ce resp ectively . H istoric factors, location s an d the new-fou nd statu s of the two cities have in¯uen ced the d esegregat ion process that has occu rred . The spatial lay-ou t of Bloem fontein , a city with its ow n black tow nship, differs sharp ly from that of P ietersb urg, a city w ith out a tow nship durin g the aparth eid era. This p aper assesses desegrega tion in these two p rovin cial cap itals in post-aparth eid South Africa and in vestigat es resid ential desegrega tion p attern s, grass-ro ots political changes (the outcom es of the local election s held in Novem ber 1994), and prop erty valu es as a further indication of the differen ces th at exist betw een these two cities.

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OPSOMMING'n Resegregasieproses (sosiale hergroepering in hierdie woonbuurte) is ook besig om in hierdie stad na vore te tree.