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Building township economies: From top-down planning to enabling development

Ivan TurokAndrew Charman by Ivan Turok and Andrew Charman 31 August 20215 October 2021

Apartheid bequeathed democratic South Africa with stark spatial divisions, epitomised by dormitory townships. The treasury’s Cities Support Programme is supporting five metros with a new, bottom-up approach to building township economies

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