Pub Date : 2022-01-20DOI: 10.1080/03736245.2022.2028669
A. Matamanda, Mischka Dunn, V. Nel
ABSTRACT The increasing informal urbanism in Africa exposes its residents to multiple shocks, including urban public health pandemics. South Africa is not an exception due to the squalid living conditions, lack of essential services and amenities, and overcrowding characterizing informal settlements. We argue that such conditions compromise the liveability of the informal settlements and the wellbeing of the communities. The urban health inequality concept is used to analyse the risks and vulnerability of informal settlements to public health problems. This study uses the impact of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) to investigate the exposure of the urban poor in South Africa’s informal settlements to public health crises. This study is ethnographic and uses the case of Dinaweng informal settlement, Bloemfontein. Data was collected from secondary data sources triangulated with 60 in-depth interviews with household heads to enhance the validity of the findings. The study found that the poor in Dinaweng are disproportionately affected by disease pandemics that are exacerbated by the challenges in their daily lives characterized by their informal livelihoods. We conclude that informal settlements are complex spaces that require carefully considered strategies and responses for addressing pandemics such as COVID-19; otherwise, the residents in these settlements remain marginalized.
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Pub Date : 2022-01-20DOI: 10.1080/03736245.2022.2028668
K. Zvokuomba, K. Batisai
ABSTRACT The physical and social environmental repercussions of large dam construction have pre-occupied development discourse for some time globally. Literature on dam projects focuses on the displacement of humans and wildlife from their natural habitats and the dam’s contribution to urban and industrial transformation. There is a dearth of literature on small dams and small-scale irrigation projects in communal areas. This article examines the status of Mushandike irrigation scheme, which was designed to transform the lives of rural people located in the semi-arid ecological region of southern Zimbabwe. We used ethnographic principles of data generation guided by a feminist theoretical framework to get to women farmers’ lived experiences. Mushandike small-scale irrigation scheme has been a ‘hydrology of hope’ for women farmers for many years. However, multifarious factors, both natural and human-induced, are turning it into a ‘hydrology of despair’. Although farming is still done from a business perspective, water stress due to an inefficient water and land allocation management system, linked to patriarchal ideological practices, has driven the irrigation scheme onto a difficult trajectory. The article recommends a paradigm shift in the irrigation scheme’s management to ensure that the original ethos – that irrigation farming is equivalent to formal employment – is re-adopted.
{"title":"From ‘hydrology of hope’ to ‘hydrology of despair’: a feminist review of Mushandike small-scale irrigation scheme in the semi-arid region of Southern Zimbabwe","authors":"K. Zvokuomba, K. Batisai","doi":"10.1080/03736245.2022.2028668","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/03736245.2022.2028668","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The physical and social environmental repercussions of large dam construction have pre-occupied development discourse for some time globally. Literature on dam projects focuses on the displacement of humans and wildlife from their natural habitats and the dam’s contribution to urban and industrial transformation. There is a dearth of literature on small dams and small-scale irrigation projects in communal areas. This article examines the status of Mushandike irrigation scheme, which was designed to transform the lives of rural people located in the semi-arid ecological region of southern Zimbabwe. We used ethnographic principles of data generation guided by a feminist theoretical framework to get to women farmers’ lived experiences. Mushandike small-scale irrigation scheme has been a ‘hydrology of hope’ for women farmers for many years. However, multifarious factors, both natural and human-induced, are turning it into a ‘hydrology of despair’. Although farming is still done from a business perspective, water stress due to an inefficient water and land allocation management system, linked to patriarchal ideological practices, has driven the irrigation scheme onto a difficult trajectory. The article recommends a paradigm shift in the irrigation scheme’s management to ensure that the original ethos – that irrigation farming is equivalent to formal employment – is re-adopted.","PeriodicalId":46279,"journal":{"name":"South African Geographical Journal","volume":"7 1","pages":"99 - 114"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2022-01-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72699904","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-01-10DOI: 10.1080/03736245.2021.2006766
Monique Douglas, R. Donaldson
ABSTRACT As a useful and an insightful tool for analysing the different aspects and complexities associated with the adoption and diffusion of agricultural innovations the diffusion of innovation (DoI) theory was used as an analytical tool to identify and understand the adoption and diffusion of organic and/or biodynamic (O/Bio) winemaking practices in the Western Cape. Six case studies were compiled from qualitative interviews conducted – three certified organic and three biodynamic. Two in-depth interviews were also conducted with professionals from the organic agriculture and the wine industry. Application of the DoI theory showed that O/Bio winemaking in the Western Cape is still in its infancy, with all the participants placed in the first quarter of the bell-shaped innovation curve. Findings that motivate or discourage adoption and diffusion of the innovations were also analysed.
{"title":"Diffusion and adoption of organic and biodynamic winemaking in the Western Cape","authors":"Monique Douglas, R. Donaldson","doi":"10.1080/03736245.2021.2006766","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/03736245.2021.2006766","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT As a useful and an insightful tool for analysing the different aspects and complexities associated with the adoption and diffusion of agricultural innovations the diffusion of innovation (DoI) theory was used as an analytical tool to identify and understand the adoption and diffusion of organic and/or biodynamic (O/Bio) winemaking practices in the Western Cape. Six case studies were compiled from qualitative interviews conducted – three certified organic and three biodynamic. Two in-depth interviews were also conducted with professionals from the organic agriculture and the wine industry. Application of the DoI theory showed that O/Bio winemaking in the Western Cape is still in its infancy, with all the participants placed in the first quarter of the bell-shaped innovation curve. Findings that motivate or discourage adoption and diffusion of the innovations were also analysed.","PeriodicalId":46279,"journal":{"name":"South African Geographical Journal","volume":"2 1","pages":"34 - 53"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2022-01-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81344504","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2021-12-09DOI: 10.1080/03736245.2021.1997793
S. Katumba, S. Coetzee, A. Stein, I. Fabris-Rotelli
ABSTRACT Apartheid laws resulted in racial residential segregation that became entrenched into the urban morphology of South Africa. When apar-theid ended in the 1990’s, the new South African democratic government was resolved to bring about social and spatial justice, address inequalities and promote social cohesion. To determine progress towards racial residential integration, aspatial indices of segregation are widely employed despite their shortcomings and limi-tations. This study employs two spatial indices of segregation: the spatial information theory index and the spatial exposure/isolation index in order to measure and quantify the levels of racial residential segregation that individuals living in Gauteng province (South Africa) would experience on average within radii of 500m, 4km and 8km of their respective residential locations. The analysis is based on the 1996, 2001 and 2011 Census data. The results indicate that the levels of racial residential segregation have steadily declined between 1996 and 2011. The levels of exposure of Whites to Black Africans continue to increase while the levels of exposure of Black Africans to Whites have remained unchanged over the same period. These observations are true for the different geographic scales (i.e. within radii of 500m, 4km and 8km) of analysis considered in this study.
{"title":"Using spatial indices to measure dynamic racial residential segregation in Gauteng province (South Africa)","authors":"S. Katumba, S. Coetzee, A. Stein, I. Fabris-Rotelli","doi":"10.1080/03736245.2021.1997793","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/03736245.2021.1997793","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Apartheid laws resulted in racial residential segregation that became entrenched into the urban morphology of South Africa. When apar-theid ended in the 1990’s, the new South African democratic government was resolved to bring about social and spatial justice, address inequalities and promote social cohesion. To determine progress towards racial residential integration, aspatial indices of segregation are widely employed despite their shortcomings and limi-tations. This study employs two spatial indices of segregation: the spatial information theory index and the spatial exposure/isolation index in order to measure and quantify the levels of racial residential segregation that individuals living in Gauteng province (South Africa) would experience on average within radii of 500m, 4km and 8km of their respective residential locations. The analysis is based on the 1996, 2001 and 2011 Census data. The results indicate that the levels of racial residential segregation have steadily declined between 1996 and 2011. The levels of exposure of Whites to Black Africans continue to increase while the levels of exposure of Black Africans to Whites have remained unchanged over the same period. These observations are true for the different geographic scales (i.e. within radii of 500m, 4km and 8km) of analysis considered in this study.","PeriodicalId":46279,"journal":{"name":"South African Geographical Journal","volume":"19 1","pages":"1 - 33"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2021-12-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84423805","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2021-11-21DOI: 10.1080/03736245.2021.2000481
Phumlani Nzuza, A. Ramoelo, J. Odindi, J. Mwenge Kahinda, L. Lindeque
ABSTRACT Land degradation is a complex environmental problem that requires robust decision-making processes that embrace diversity of local indigenous knowledge. Participatory approaches are essential in capturing the complexity in land degradation processes while overcoming limitations presented by scientific methods that disregard socio-economic factors. Hence, the triangulation approach can be used to combine participatory expert maps with satellite imagery by overlaying both maps to enhance understanding of land degradation. This study incorporated social and physical factors that cause land degradation through an expert assessment. This was achieved through a participatory expert mapping exercise using the World Overview Conservation Approaches and Technology (WOCAT) mapping questionnaire and remote sensing techniques to map land degradation severity that was integrated by overlaying, i.e. triangulation approach. The WOCAT results were validated using field observations and discussions on land covers. Climatic variability, improper soil management and unsustainable land-use practices were identified as leading causes of land degradation while soil erosion and loss of vegetation cover were the perceived prominent types of land degradation. The land degradation severity modelling assessment achieved an accuracy of R2 0.86, RMSE 7.72 and relRMSE 12.94% in estimating bare soil cover, which was used as an indicator of potential land degradation severity. Variables such as leaf area index (LAI) and soil adjusted vegetation index (SAVI) were essential in determining degraded landscapes. The severity maps indicated that low-lying areas are moderately degraded due to overgrazing. The study concluded that a triangulation approach provides a better understanding of land degradation.
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Pub Date : 2021-11-16DOI: 10.1080/03736245.2021.2004918
James Gregory
ABSTRACT The socio-economic impacts associated with studentification are diverse. International and local research suggests that the process of studentification and growth of private student accommodation can attract certain types of crime to neighbourhoods that have a high concentration of students. Johannesburg is a popular city amongst local and regional students and attracts several thousand students each year. Some neighbourhoods have become popular student districts, providing student accommodation and spaces for student consumption. Drawing on several focus groups, netnography, and semi-structured interviews this paper explores the lived experiences of students and residents impacted by crime in studentified neighbourhoods. The findings of this paper suggest that students are exposed to certain types of targeted crime that impact their safety and wellbeing in Johannesburg. In addition, it was found that the impact of crime varies significantly according to the type of student accommodation and its location.
{"title":"An easy target: studentification, crime and safety of students in Johannesburg","authors":"James Gregory","doi":"10.1080/03736245.2021.2004918","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/03736245.2021.2004918","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The socio-economic impacts associated with studentification are diverse. International and local research suggests that the process of studentification and growth of private student accommodation can attract certain types of crime to neighbourhoods that have a high concentration of students. Johannesburg is a popular city amongst local and regional students and attracts several thousand students each year. Some neighbourhoods have become popular student districts, providing student accommodation and spaces for student consumption. Drawing on several focus groups, netnography, and semi-structured interviews this paper explores the lived experiences of students and residents impacted by crime in studentified neighbourhoods. The findings of this paper suggest that students are exposed to certain types of targeted crime that impact their safety and wellbeing in Johannesburg. In addition, it was found that the impact of crime varies significantly according to the type of student accommodation and its location.","PeriodicalId":46279,"journal":{"name":"South African Geographical Journal","volume":"77 1","pages":"366 - 381"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2021-11-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77021752","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2021-09-30DOI: 10.1080/03736245.2021.1980427
C. Roos, Christiaan Baron, D. Cilliers, R. Alberts, F. Retief, Jurie Moolman
ABSTRACT This study aimed to investigate waste separation at source behaviour among South African households in Abaqulusi Local Municipality in KwaZulu-Natal. Behaviour in this context refers to determining current waste separation practices, and the willingness of households to participate in waste separation in future. Awareness and attitudes towards source separation, as well as certain socio-demographic variables were determined. Door-to-door surveys, supported by structured questionnaires, were used to collect data from 757 households. Only 16% households reported current participation in waste separation practices. Less than one-third of the households indicated that they would be willing to participate in waste separation practices in the future. Gender (p = 0.02, V = 0.04) and income (p = 0.01, V = 0.15) had a statistically significant relationship with waste separation practice, but were of low practical significance, whereas household size (p = 0.06, V = 0.1) was both statistically and practically insignificant. When considering these variables and their relationship with willingness to participate in separation at source in future, gender (p = 0.003, V = 0.1), household size (p = 0.01, V = 0.3) and income (p = 0.01, V = 0.28) had a statistically significant relationship with willingness, with a low to moderate practical significance.
本研究旨在调查夸祖鲁-纳塔尔省阿巴古卢西地方市政府南非家庭的垃圾源头分类行为。在这方面，行为指的是确定当前的废物分类做法，以及家庭将来参与废物分类的意愿。确定了对源分离的认识和态度以及某些社会人口变量。以结构化问卷为支撑的挨家挨户调查，收集了757户家庭的数据。只有16%的家庭报告目前参与了废物分类做法。不到三分之一的家庭表示他们愿意在未来参与废物分类工作。性别(p = 0.02, V = 0.04)和收入(p = 0.01, V = 0.15)对垃圾分类行为的影响具有统计学意义，但实际意义不显著，而家庭规模(p = 0.06, V = 0.1)对垃圾分类行为的影响在统计学和实际意义上均不显著。在考虑这些变量及其与未来源头分离意愿的关系时，性别(p = 0.003, V = 0.1)、家庭规模(p = 0.01, V = 0.3)和收入(p = 0.01, V = 0.28)与意愿的关系具有统计学意义，具有低到中等的实际意义。
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Pub Date : 2021-09-14DOI: 10.1080/03736245.2021.1973907
G. Membele, M. Naidu, O. Mutanga
ABSTRACT Climate change and the multidimensional nature of flood vulnerability, necessitate an in-depth consideration of experiential knowledge in reducing flood vulnerability in geospatial environments such as informal settlements. The objective of this paper is to provide a critical review of literature and scholarship in the context of the integration of Indigenous Knowledge and Geographical Information System in mapping flood vulnerability in South Africa. Keywords were searched in two databases for empirical studies that integrated Indigenous Knowledge and Geographical Informal System in mapping flood vulnerability in South Africa. The search extended to literature cited in the papers identified from the databases. The studies were thematically analysed and synthesized. The findings reveal that flood vulnerability in South Africa is mainly considered from an integrated perspective. Approaches used to integrate Indigenous Knowledge and Geographical Information Systems in mapping flood vulnerability are fragmented. There is a lack of sensitivity analysis and map validation, limited use of Indigenous Knowledge as well as inadequate community participation in the mapping of flood vulnerability in informal settlements. This critical review demonstrates the need for a comprehensive, explicit and participatory approach for integrating Indigenous Knowledge and Geographical Information System that genuinely utilize the special characteristics that each of them possesses.
{"title":"Integrating Indigenous Knowledge and Geographical Information System in mapping flood vulnerability in informal settlements in a South African context: a critical review","authors":"G. Membele, M. Naidu, O. Mutanga","doi":"10.1080/03736245.2021.1973907","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/03736245.2021.1973907","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Climate change and the multidimensional nature of flood vulnerability, necessitate an in-depth consideration of experiential knowledge in reducing flood vulnerability in geospatial environments such as informal settlements. The objective of this paper is to provide a critical review of literature and scholarship in the context of the integration of Indigenous Knowledge and Geographical Information System in mapping flood vulnerability in South Africa. Keywords were searched in two databases for empirical studies that integrated Indigenous Knowledge and Geographical Informal System in mapping flood vulnerability in South Africa. The search extended to literature cited in the papers identified from the databases. The studies were thematically analysed and synthesized. The findings reveal that flood vulnerability in South Africa is mainly considered from an integrated perspective. Approaches used to integrate Indigenous Knowledge and Geographical Information Systems in mapping flood vulnerability are fragmented. There is a lack of sensitivity analysis and map validation, limited use of Indigenous Knowledge as well as inadequate community participation in the mapping of flood vulnerability in informal settlements. This critical review demonstrates the need for a comprehensive, explicit and participatory approach for integrating Indigenous Knowledge and Geographical Information System that genuinely utilize the special characteristics that each of them possesses.","PeriodicalId":46279,"journal":{"name":"South African Geographical Journal","volume":"13 1","pages":"446 - 466"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2021-09-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88097564","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2021-09-12DOI: 10.1080/03736245.2021.1966492
F. Mensah, Qingnian Yu, Guoqing Shi
ABSTRACT The study aims to explain the essence of an alternative approach to the Old Fadama inevitable eviction and to justify the merits & feasibility of a land-sharing scheme to the community. Previous studies used principles to explain the feasibility of land-sharing, but the present study adopted both principles and theories. The injustice and social inequality from evictions are ironed out by applying Amartya Sen’s idea on justice that counters transcendentalism theory. The study answers three critical questions: why the community residents demand justice, how advantageous land-sharing is to other methods, and how feasible land-sharing is to the research area. A survey was done in the study area using structured questionnaires, interviews, and observations. A purposive sampling technique selected 600 affected community residents, 30 local government officials, and one coordinator from Amnesty International Ghana. Both qualitative and quantitative analytical methods were used to analyse the primary data. First of all, the study findings revealed four substantive claims for requesting justice from the local authorities; citizenship rights, property rights, temporal permit, and long-term stay. Secondly, land-sharing is preferred to relocation and cash compensation because it poses less risk than the other two. Finally, the study supported the feasibility of a land-sharing scheme to the Old Fadama based on Rabé’s (2005) principles. The study also concluded that information and compensation are critical to the resettlement process; hence, local authorities should.
{"title":"Fostering land-sharing scheme as alternative resettlement to the inevitable Old Fadama evictions and challenges in Ghana","authors":"F. Mensah, Qingnian Yu, Guoqing Shi","doi":"10.1080/03736245.2021.1966492","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/03736245.2021.1966492","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The study aims to explain the essence of an alternative approach to the Old Fadama inevitable eviction and to justify the merits & feasibility of a land-sharing scheme to the community. Previous studies used principles to explain the feasibility of land-sharing, but the present study adopted both principles and theories. The injustice and social inequality from evictions are ironed out by applying Amartya Sen’s idea on justice that counters transcendentalism theory. The study answers three critical questions: why the community residents demand justice, how advantageous land-sharing is to other methods, and how feasible land-sharing is to the research area. A survey was done in the study area using structured questionnaires, interviews, and observations. A purposive sampling technique selected 600 affected community residents, 30 local government officials, and one coordinator from Amnesty International Ghana. Both qualitative and quantitative analytical methods were used to analyse the primary data. First of all, the study findings revealed four substantive claims for requesting justice from the local authorities; citizenship rights, property rights, temporal permit, and long-term stay. Secondly, land-sharing is preferred to relocation and cash compensation because it poses less risk than the other two. Finally, the study supported the feasibility of a land-sharing scheme to the Old Fadama based on Rabé’s (2005) principles. The study also concluded that information and compensation are critical to the resettlement process; hence, local authorities should.","PeriodicalId":46279,"journal":{"name":"South African Geographical Journal","volume":"35 1","pages":"397 - 426"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2021-09-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78728971","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2021-08-25DOI: 10.1080/03736245.2021.1967774
S. E. Maswanganye, T. Dube, D. Mazvimavi, N. Jovanovic
ABSTRACT Non-perennial rivers (NPRs) account for more than 50% of the world’s river network and their occurrence is expanding. Some rivers that were previously classified as perennial have evolved to be NPRs in response to climate change and socio-economic uses. There is inadequate understanding of the spatio-temporal dynamics of flows and pools along these rivers due to lack of data, as a priority of river monitoring has been placed on perennial rivers. The current understanding and methods used for monitoring NPRs are mostly derived from perennial rivers perspective. This review paper examines challenges for collecting data on these hydrological attributes of NPRs using current methods. Furthermore, this paper provides an overview of the potential and limitations of using remote sensing data for monitoring NPRs. Remote sensing data are successfully used for monitoring wetlands and lakes, but little is known about their capabilities for monitoring pools along NPRs. Remote sensing has also been successfully used to estimate discharge of large perennial rivers; however, this has not been fully explored for NPRs. Remote sensing has the potential to extract more hydrological information that currently cannot be extracted using conventional in-situ measurement methods. With advancements, remote sensing technology could become useful for managing NPRs.
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