Abstract:The South African social formation is characterised by a distinctively large social distance. This paper traces the evolution of the social formation, identifies some of its parameter and demonstrates its on the urbanisation process and the urban structure. Within this framework, a Segregation City and an Apartheid City are recognised, representing two sequential but interrelated phases of urban development separated by the acceptance of a formal Apartheid ideology and development strategy from 1948 onwards.The segregation of race and ethnic groups has historically been a central characteristic of social, economic and spatial organization in the South African city. It is a function of society that no South African can escape and that pervades all facets of urban living. This paper has the limited objective of outlining elements of race and ethnic spatial segregation in the residential structure of the South African city and of identifying some of the social, political, and economic underpinnings of the social formation from which urban space forming processes arise.

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