South Africa in a comparative study of industrialization

Trapido, Stanley

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“…3) While the concept of Apartheid is usually expressed in pluralist terms, it may also be interpreted as an expression of the underlying forcas of class conflict in a capitalist political economiy. This theme is more fully explored and debated in Trapido, 1971;Wolpe, 1972;Legassick, 1974;Morris, 1976;Whrigt, 1977 andWebster (eds), 1978. 4) In some cities, including Johannesburg and Cape Town, unrestricted outgrowth of African sectoral Group Areas has been severely contained.…”

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confidence: 97%

The spatial formation of the South African City

Davies

1981

GeoJournal

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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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confidence: 97%

The spatial formation of the South African City

Davies

1981

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“…Third, the choice of Newcastle facilitated Iscor's economic strategy of buying out Amcor (The African Metals Corporation), eliminating a competitor as well as acquiring a suitable site for initial production. Lastly, Newcastle as the preferred site underwrote the state (and, more specifically, the Afrikaner Nationalist) agenda for the province of Natal, as it was then known (Trapido 1971).…”

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Racial remains in a company town? Iscor houses and the appearance of race in contemporary newcastle

Peens

2012

South African Review of Sociology

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This article developed out of a qualitative study of the lives of four white working-class families in Newcastle, KwaZulu-Natal. It focuses on how race appears in the built environment -rather than being consciously 'thought' -and how, for these families, racism is tied to the loss of place. For them, the experience of living in a house that once promised security and has now become a site of insecurity produces a specific kind of alienation and a racial consciousness which is subtly different from the 'white talk' described by Steyn (2001) in analysing white South African discourse.

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“…This signaled the definitive end of an historic &dquo;union of gold and maize&dquo; (Trapido, 1971:311), or at least of mining interests and larger, more capitalized maize farmers, expressed in support for Smuts' South African Party. Although Morrell (1988) argues that the alliance had started to disintegrate in the 1920s, the principal point is that in 1948 a relatively unified agrarian interest was one of the main constituents of the social bloc of the NP, the others being the Afrikaner petty bourgeoisie and its intelligentsia, linked with Afrikaner capital in finance and trade, and key sections of white wage earners won over by &dquo;Christian national&dquo; unionism after a bitter internecine struggle in white labor organizations (Trapido, 1971;O'Meara, 1978O'Meara, , 1983. As if anticipating 1948, organized agriculture formalized its unity of ideological vision and practical purpose as the South African Agricultural Union (SAAU) brought together the district and provincial unions of white farmers with the cooperatives and commodity organizations in 1946 in a &dquo;United Front&dquo; (SAAU, 1981: 115-6) that came to virtually define the agrarian institutions and policies of the apartheid state until the 1980s.…”

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How White Agriculture (Re)Positioned Itself for a 'New South Africa'

Bernstein

1996

Critical Sociology

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The theoretical context of this paper is a critique of the liberal vision of the transition from apartheid as a process of the universalization of market access (as well as of citizenship rights). Its empirical context is the trajectory of &dquo;organized agriculture&dquo; since 1948, including the creeping &dquo;deregulation&dquo; of agriculture during the &dquo;reformist&dquo; phase of apartheid in the 1980s, with the main focus on how highveld agriculture (re)positioned itself during the transition period of 1990-1994. The strategic goal was securing the conditions of reproduction of historic property rights, and a key instrument of this the consolidation of the giant summer grain (maize) cooperatives. These represent a peculiar form of agribusiness that seeks both to satisfy the demands of modem capitalist enterprise and to support the project of maintaining Afrikaner dominance in the highveld in changing political and economic conditions.With the end of apartheid, South Africa continues to be a capitalist social formation as liberal thinkers (long) maintained it could (and should) be, against those currents in the liberation movement that once argued the indivisibility of apartheid and capitalism, hence their necessarily combined downfall: the &dquo;no middle road&dquo; position (Slovo, 1976). The reasons for the way apartheid ended, and debate of them, can not be rehearsed here (see O'Meara, 1996). It is enough to note that the political stalemate of the late 1980s -a mutual exhaustion of contending forces, as Engels once put it -registered both the apparent impossibility of overthrowing the apartheid regime by mass insurrection and the continuously escalating costs to capital of maintaining the racial order. Development Studies,

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South Africa in a comparative study of industrialization

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Cited by 120 publications

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The spatial formation of the South African City

The spatial formation of the South African City

Racial remains in a company town? Iscor houses and the appearance of race in contemporary newcastle

How White Agriculture (Re)Positioned Itself for a 'New South Africa'

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