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Upgrading Informal Settlements in
South Africa
Pursuing a partnership-based approach
Editors: L Cirolia, T Görgens, M van Donk, W Smit & S Drimie
At the end of apartheid the South African state launched a large-scale Reconstruction and Development Programme (RDP) which included the provision of ‘free housing’ to the poor — known commonly as ‘RDP housing’. There is overwhelming evidence that this programme has largely failed and the idea of upgrading informal settlements rather than eradicating them has slowly gained traction in South Africa.
A more incremental and participatory housing delivery model is necessary, using a more plural, responsive and adaptive approach which responds to the challenges of the informal city. A range of innovative upgrading practices are emerging, among them partnerships between NGOs, local municipalities and communities to address upgrading challenges. This book captures the current successes and challenges of informal settlement upgrading initiatives in South Africa and seeks to inspire sustainable and transformative upgrading practice.
Recommended for
Urban planners and policy makers, government o cials, urban and development consultants, NGOs, politicians, students (both undergraduate and postgraduate), and academics in the eld of Housing, Governance, Urban Studies, Informality, Southern cities, Development, Security and Welfare.
About the editors
Liza Cirolia is researcher on human settlements and informality at the African Centre for Cities at the University of Cape Town; Tristan Görgens, a former policy researcher on urban land and human settlements at Isandla Institute, is a policy analyst in the Policy and Strategy Unit of the Department of the Premier in the Western Cape government; Mirjam van Donk is Director of the Isandla Institute and editor of a number of books on urban policy in South Africa; Warren Smit is researcher at the African Centre for Cities at the University of Cape Town with 20 years of experience in housing and policy; Scott Drimie is a food security specialist, Associate Professor in the Department of Interdisciplinary Health Sciences at Stellenbosch University, Senior Lecturer at the Sustainability Institute and chair of the Advisory Board of Stellenbosch University’s Food Security Initiative.