That close to 50% of those who benefited from apartheid deny it was a crime against humanity, is no surprise, considering the increasing number of racial attacks in Cape Town, and the ever increasing trend of apartheid denialism on social media especially from Cape Town’s more affluent suburbs. The example is being set by the powers that be in Cape Town, where the poor and previously disadvantaged are pushed to the outskirts of society along existing apartheid spatial planning. Dot-mapss, racial distribution in South African cities, shows clearly that Apartheid Spatial Planning is still, more than any other SA cities, highly prevalent in Cape Town. Jared Sacks a Director of a child protection Non-Profit stated last year, The recent publication of dot maps of South Africa’s racial distribution by Adrian Frith shows how despite the intense segregation in all South African cities, poor so called non-white South Africans are most crammed into Cape Town’s ghettos than anywhere else. Principle at Oxford University, Professor Colin Bundy’s article “APARTHEID FAULT LINES - Our past haunts our future“ (Cape Times 23 January 2013), laments the ‘ethnic cleansing of Harfield Village, Claremont, Newlands,.... to Mitchells Plain, Khayelitsha etc’. Prof Bundy’s analysis reveals that while we might believe that we live in post apartheid Cape Town, in fact we “inhabit the urban geography of high apartheid”. As we remember Madiba, Cape Town should be ashamed that 20years after democracy we the most racially segregated city in SA, and because of the City’s perpetuation of apartheid spatial planning probably one of the most segregated in the world.
Posted on: Sun, 28 Dec 2014 14:32:33 +0000
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