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Spatial Inequality

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Expansion needed: Supporters of the sale of the Cape Town International Convention Centre argue that if the City continues to own it, the funding obligation to grow it falls partly on the public purse. Photo: Discott
ASSET MANAGEMENT

Why the City of Cape Town selling its real estate is not as simple as it looks

Selling too much public property now could limit future opportunities for social housing, community facilities or public projects that only the state can deliver

  • Ash Müller
6 min read
Nimby: The elite either flee the grinding poverty creeping into neighbourhoods in Johannesburg or pretend not to see it, rather than face it and find ways to work with the government to bridge spatial gaps where we live, send our children to school and work. Photo: Delwyn Verasamy
EDUCATION

Spatial inequality affects everybody

My father had to fake his address to get me into a school. Now suburban decay has made me find another school for my children

  • Bulelwa Mabasa
8 min read
Equal distribution of resources will not close the access gap. Instead, resources must be deployed where they are needed most – and low-cost housing must move from the urban periphery too
APARTHEID

Why a blanket approach to redressing spatial inequity is flawed

Equal distribution of resources will not close the access gap. Instead, resources must be deployed where they are needed most – and low-cost housing must move from the urban…

  • Qhamani Neza Tshazi
7 min read