Local government restructuring, growth coalitions, and the development process in the Durban Functional Region, c. 1984–1994

Pillay, U.

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Section: The Context: a Brief Overview Of Development Imperatives In mentioning

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“…Historically, partnerships between key role-players in the city, particularly between business and government, emerged during the early stages of national transition (the late 1980 s and early 1990 s) (Maharaj and Ramballi 1998;Pillay 1994). The key partnership during the early transformation period was Operation Jumpstart, a partnership which was strongly instrumental in drawing together disparate urban role-players to address urban development needs (Pillay 1994). One main outcome of this early partnership was the successful development of the Durban International Convention Centre on the outskirts of the CBD (Nel et al 2003), thus setting the scene for partnerships which facilitate flagship developments within Durban.…”

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Negotiating the Global and the Local: Evaluating Development Through Public–Private Partnerships in Durban, South Africa

Houghton

2010

Urban Forum

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Within a context of transition, South African cities such as Durban are required to address the dual development imperatives of socio-economic redistribution and increasing global competitiveness. Processes associated with shifts to urban governance and partnerships are being drawn on to achieve these urban development goals. In 1999, the Durban Growth Coalition, a strategic partnership between business and government, emerged to address urban economic development concerns. The partnership has led to the successful planning and implementation of various flagship developments within the city. This paper evaluates the processes of the Coalition and associated projects in order to assess to what extent the partnership is successfully addressing the dual imperatives of post-apartheid redress and integration into the global economy. The paper thus critically examines the implications of using public-private partnerships as mechanisms for equitable development in South Africa and highlights the possibility of the emergence of deliberative processes of decision-making through partnerships.

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Negotiating the Global and the Local: Evaluating Development Through Public–Private Partnerships in Durban, South Africa

Houghton

2010

Urban Forum

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“…In and around Durban, certain spaces became 'no-go' areas, controlled either by Inkatha or the UDF. Township residents (particularly in Chesterville and Lamontville) began a series of resistance campaigns around issues of rent, education, transport, and the proposed incorporation of the townships into KwaZulu, leading to violent backlashes by supporters of Inkatha (Pillay 1994). In the burgeoning shack areas, political authority fell to 'warlords', powerful individuals able to control or manipulate access to land.…”

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Violence and Memory in the Reconstruction of South Africa's Cato Manor

Popke

2000

Growth and Change

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Among the most destructive legacies of apartheid in South Africa is the violent history of division, discrimination, and control through which the everyday injustices of racial order were experienced. This violence of 'separate development' was inscribed within particular spaces, as the apartheid state attempted to define and control where racially-defined citizens could live, work, and travel. This paper examines the geography of violence and reconstruction in one such space, that of Cato Manor near Durban. The area is known for the large-scale forced removals which took place there in the 1950s, destroying a multi-racial community of Indian and African residents. Although zoned for white residence, Cato Manor remained vacant until the 1980s, when it became a safe haven for refugees fleeing violence in the Natal countryside. In the early 1990s, the area became the focus of a non-racial development effort, which sought to overcome the violent social divisions of the apartheid era. This redevelopment, however, became a site of contestation when former residents of Cato Manor petitioned to reclaim land they once owned there, claims that the city of Durban attempted to nullify in court. The outcome of the land claims trial highlights the tensions between the present dictates of development and the process of negotiating the violence of the past, and suggests that the democratization of planning can be a means of 'working through' the legacies of displacement and dispossession that are so much a part of South Africa's present. Copyright 2000 Gatton College of Business and Economics, University of Kentucky.

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The uniqueness of locality

Pillay¹

1996

Urban Forum

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Local government restructuring, growth coalitions, and the development process in the Durban Functional Region, c. 1984–1994

Cited by 9 publications

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Negotiating the Global and the Local: Evaluating Development Through Public–Private Partnerships in Durban, South Africa

Negotiating the Global and the Local: Evaluating Development Through Public–Private Partnerships in Durban, South Africa

Violence and Memory in the Reconstruction of South Africa's Cato Manor

The uniqueness of locality

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