The South African Urban System

Baffi, Solène; Turok, Ivan; Vacchiani-Marcuzzo, Céline

doi:10.1007/978-981-10-7799-9_13

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“…Yet, they also have stronger health infrastructure and medical capacity to test, treat and manage the spread of the virus. Their economies are larger, more diversified and more productive than other places (Baffi et al, 2018;Turok, 2014). Their bigger firms have access to cash reserves, bank credit and other financial assets to fall back on during times of crisis.…”

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Rural–urban inequalities amplified by COVID-19: evidence from South Africa

Visagie

Turok

2021

Area Development and Policy

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Like most governments around the world, the South African government adopted a uniform, place-blind response to the coronavirus pandemic, including a hard lockdown. New evidence from a large household survey reveals that the socioeconomic effects have widened pre-existing inequalities between cities and rural areas. More could be done to complement national relief programmes with targeted efforts to boost jobs and livelihoods in the most vulnerable areas. In addition, the premature withdrawal of relief measures before the economy has recovered would aggravate the hardship in poorer communities that have come to rely on these resources following the jobs slump.

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Rural–urban inequalities amplified by COVID-19: evidence from South Africa

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Turok

2021

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“…The internal factors are first related to South Africa's urban system. The country has several big cities, with six so-called metropolitan municipalities 7 of at least one million inhabitants ( Baffi et al, 2018 ). Given the country's size and inter-city distances, these cities are distant enough to justify air services, and the collapse of long-distance passenger trains over the past two decades has fuelled the growth of domestic air services ( Baffi, 2014 ).…”

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“… Pirie (2006) clearly demonstrated the move from intercontinental to intracontinental networks, and thus the ‘africanisation’ of South Africa's international airline routes. However, the domestic dimension has been widely neglected despite its potential relevance in the context of extensive economic and aviation liberalisation and of a multipolar urban system ( Baffi et al, 2018 ). Our paper aims to fill this gap, taking into account recent developments of South's Africa's domestic air transport industry until the end of 2019.…”

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“…Privately owned Lanseria Airport in Johannesburg complements OR Tambo International Airport and adds to the city's importance as an international tourist destination. This ranking partially reflects the size of the urban areas, with Johannesburg being the largest agglomeration by any metric (see Baffi et al, 2018 ). However, while Cape Town is a bit more populated than Durban, it is served by a significantly greater volume of air services.…”

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Between external forces and internal factors: The geography of domestic airline services in South Africa

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Dobruszkes

2020

Journal of Transport Geography

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This paper investigates the changes and current patterns of domestic passenger airline networks in South Africa, considering routes operated and volumes of seats supplied by carriers. This market was liberalised in 1991 and the new market-oriented policy was not challenged by the post-apartheid regime. Flag-carrier South African Airways (SAA) has lost its virtual monopoly, and thus significant volumes and market share, although its decrease is smaller if one considers its regional affiliates and subsidiary. Conversely, low-cost airlines have literally boomed, while British Airways has penetrated the market through a franchise agreement with Comair. Route networks by airline show various patterns. The low-cost carriers tend to concentrate on South Africa's Golden Triangle, while SAA regional affiliates mostly serve thin routes without competitors. Furthermore, the rise of low-cost airlines has led to the utilisation of a secondary airport in Johannesburg, the only African city with a multiple-airport system. Finally, our results are interpreted in light of South Africa's geography, intermodal options and social-political issues.

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“…In early 1990 the typical South African city, influenced by an era of racial oppression and feeble attempts to morally justify it, was characterised by managerial, social and spatial fragmentation (Baffi et. al, 2018).…”

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Growth, exclusion and vulnerability: evaluation of the socio-spatial transformation of post-apartheid Pretoria-Tshwane (South Africa)

Horn

2020

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Apartheid left South African city regions with two major challenges: social integration at a city level and spatial integration at a regional level. The task to finds solutions to these problems was left to municipalities, the lowest level of the three trier government system introduced after 1994. This article critically evaluates the success of the post-apartheid municipal government of Pretoria-Tshwane to address the said challenges in the reorganization of the city region over a 25-year period. The paper starts with a reconstruction of the apartheid city to display its socio-spatial contrasts and to define the challenge of integration and compaction. The investigation is based on literature, census information and observation. The main finding is that the progress made with the integration of the city at both scales is being neutralized by demographic trends, choice of association, urban sprawl, uncertain management, the scale of aspirations, unrealistic expectations and, most of all, municipal incapacity. The failure of the local government of Pretoria-Tshwane to achieve the said goals points to the inefficiency of the current approach that obligates municipalities with the complete task to rectify the dichotomies of the apartheid city system within their regions. It is advocated that additional governmental entities be implemented to support local governments with the planning and re-development of post-apartheid city-regions.

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The South African Urban System

Cited by 13 publications

References 22 publications

Rural–urban inequalities amplified by COVID-19: evidence from South Africa

Rural–urban inequalities amplified by COVID-19: evidence from South Africa

Between external forces and internal factors: The geography of domestic airline services in South Africa

Growth, exclusion and vulnerability: evaluation of the socio-spatial transformation of post-apartheid Pretoria-Tshwane (South Africa)

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