OPINION: Legacy of the Group Areas Act still defines how we live and interact, 70 years later, writes founding director of the member-based Women in Planning SA Siphelelisiwe Sithole-Ngobese.
Johannesburg - How, why and where many of us live was determined by the Group Areas Act, which was passed in 1950.
The Group Areas Act was a spatial planning tool used during the oppressive apartheid regime to restrict people to designated residential areas for exclusive use by certain race groups. These areas were to be known as “group areas”. Most of these areas, including the African homelands, usually had one transport network so as to monitor the people’s movement.
Given that over two decades have passed since the repealing of the Group Areas Act, why is there still such inequality among the living conditions of the races? After working in the planning sector for 11 years, I have witnessed the following: * Planners lack adequate training as the curriculum for such studies fails to deal with planning issues at the coalface - work-integrated learning is rarely part of the curriculum.
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