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A Matter of Timing: Migration and Housing Access in Metropolitan Johannesburg

In: African Urban Economies

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  • Jo Beall

    (London School of Economics (LSE))

  • Owen Crankshaw

    (University of Cape Town)

  • Sue Parnell

    (University of Cape Town)

Abstract

The city of Johannesburg lies at the centre of the largest urban conurbation in Sub-Saharan Africa. In the past, this conurbation was known by the clumsy acronym PWV that stood for the Pretoria–Witwatersrand–Vereeniging complex. Today, it has the political status of a province and has been renamed Gauteng, a popular local name meaning ‘place of gold’. A province that is almost entirely urban, Gauteng is home to 7.3 million people: about onethird of South Africa’s urban population of 21.8 million.1 Using the most recent metropolitan demarcations, the population of Johannesburg itself was about 2.6 million in 1996,2 making it the second largest city in South Africa, after Durban (2.8 million), and marginally bigger than Cape Town (also about 2.6 million).

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  • Jo Beall & Owen Crankshaw & Sue Parnell, 2006. "A Matter of Timing: Migration and Housing Access in Metropolitan Johannesburg," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Deborah Fahy Bryceson & Deborah Potts (ed.), African Urban Economies, chapter 10, pages 233-253, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-0-230-52301-2_10
    DOI: 10.1057/9780230523012_10
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