Mining and Community in South Africa
Mining has played a key role in the growth of many towns in South Africa. This growth has been accompanied by a proliferation of informal settlements, by pressure to provide basic services and by institutional pressures in local government to support mining. Fragile municipal finance, changing social attributes, the pressures of shift work on mineworkers, the impact on the physical environment and perceived new inequalities between mineworkers, contract workers and original inhabitants have further complicated matters. Mining growth has, however, also led to substantial local economic benefits to existing business and it has contributed to a mushrooming of new enterprises.
While the relationship between mining and economic development at the country level has received adequate attention in existing literature, less is known about the consequences of mining at the local level. This book investigates the local impacts of mining in South Africa, focusing on employment, inequality, housing, business development, worker well-being, governance, municipal finance, planning and the environment.
Taking an interdisciplinary approach, Mining and Community in South Africa will be of interest to scholars of South Africa, economic development, labour and industry, politics and planning.
Lochner Marais is Professor in Development Studies at the Centre for Development Support, University of the Free State, Bloemfontein, South Africa.
Philippe Burger is Professor and Head of the Department of Economics at the University of the Free State, Bloemfontein, South Africa.
Deidr van Rooyen is currently the Programme Director for Development Studies and a researcher in the Centre for Development Support at the University of the Free State, Bloemfontein, South Africa.
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Contents
SECTION A
Setting the scene
LOCHNER MARAIS, DEIDR VAN ROOYEN, PHILIPPE BURGER, MOLEFI LENKA, JAN CLOETE, STUART DENOON-STEVENS, KGOSI MOCWAGAE, MISCHKA JACOBS AND JOHNICA RIET
LOCHNER MARAIS AND JOHN NTEMA
RORY PILOSSOF AND PHILIPPE BURGER
SECTION B
Governance, planning, the environment and power
ERNST DREWES AND MALNE CAMPBELL
STUART DENOON-STEVENS, VERNA NEL AND THULISILE MPHAMBUKELI
LYNDON DU PLESSIS AND DIANE ABRAHAMS
CHRIS HENDRIKS AND LOCHNER MARAIS
FALKO T. BUSCHKE, JOOST SOMMEN, MAITLAND T. SEAMAN AND RICHARD D. WILLIAMSON
SECTION C
To rent or to own?
JAN CLOETE AND STUART DENOON-STEVENS
THOMAS STEWART AND ERNST DREWES
SECTION D
Working and doing business
PHILIPPE BURGER AND JEAN-PIERRE GELDENHUYS
MARTINA KOTZ AND PETRUS NEL
DEIDR VAN ROOYEN AND JOHAN VAN ZYL
SECTION E
Conclusion
LOCHNER MARAIS, FIONA HASLAM McKENZIE, ETIENNE NEL, DEIDR VAN ROOYEN AND PHILIPPE BURGER
Diane Abrahams , School of Tourism and Hospitality Management, University of Johannesburg, Johannesburg, South Africa.
Philippe Burger , Department of Economics, University of the Free State, Bloemfontein, South Africa.
Falko T. Buschke , Centre for Environmental Management, University of the Free State, Bloemfontein, South Africa.
Malne Campbell , Department of Urban and Regional Planning, University of the Free State, Bloemfontein, South Africa.
Jan Cloete , Centre for Development Support, University of the Free State, Bloemfontein, South Africa.
Stuart Denoon-Stevens , Department of Urban and Regional Planning, University of the Free State, Bloemfontein, South Africa.
Ernst Drewes , Department of Urban and Regional Planning, University of the North West, Potchefstroom, South Africa.
Lyndon Du Plessis , Department of Public Management, University of the Free State, Bloemfontein, South Africa.
Jean-Pierre Geldenhuys , Department of Economics, University of the Free State, Bloemfontein, South Africa.
Fiona Haslam McKenzie , Centre for Regional Development, University of Western Australia, Australia.
Chris Hendriks , Department of Public Management, University of the Free State, Bloemfontein, South Africa.
Mischka Jacobs , Department of Urban and Regional Planning, University of the Free State, Bloemfontein, South Africa.
Martina Kotz, Business School, University of the Free State, Bloemfontein, South Africa.
Molefi Lenka , Centre for Development Support, University of the Free State, Bloemfontein, South Africa.
Lochner Marais , Centre for Development Support, University of the Free State, Bloemfontein, South Africa.
Kgosi Mocwagae , Department of Urban and Regional Planning, University of the Free State, Bloemfontein, South Africa.
Thulisile Mphambukeli , Department of Urban and Regional Planning, University of the Free State, Bloemfontein, South Africa.
Etienne Nel , Department of Geography, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand and Visiting Professor at the Centre for Development Support, University of the Free State, Bloemfontein, South Africa.
Petrus Nel , Department of Industrial Psychology, University of the Free State, Bloemfontein, South Africa.
Verna Nel , Department of Urban and Regional Planning, University of the Free State, Bloemfontein, South Africa.
John Ntema , Department of Development Studies, University of South Africa, Pretoria, South Africa.
Rory Pilossof , Department of Economics and International Studies Group, University of the Free State, Bloemfontein, South Africa.
