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Urban community gardens and urban justice in the Cape Flats of Cape Town
(University of the Western Cape, 2022)
Cities worldwide are undergoing neoliberal transformation processes, culminating in deep
income inequalities, erosion of public space, and the depletion of social fabric across distressed
communities. The process of ...
Territory and exclusion: Contestations over space in Mitchell’s Plain
(University of the Western Cape, 2022)
In the post-apartheid city, protest action has become synonymous with land invasions. The
constant growth of informal settlements in South Africa places significant pressure on local
and national authorities, but more ...
Assessing sense of place amongst returnees of District Six, Cape Town
(University of the Western Cape, 2022)
District Six was a pre-apartheid community destroyed by racialized forced relocations. Under the Group Areas Act of the apartheid rule, all District Six residents were forcibly relocated and scattered around the city and ...
Reptiles of the Soutpansberg: Biogeography, distribution and communities
(University of the Western Cape, 2022)
Globally, reptiles, like all terrestrial vertebrates, are currently facing human induced
population declines at an unprecedented level. However, from a South African
perspective, it is unclear how human pressures are ...