ABSTRACT
In the last three chapters we have seen how neoliberal policymaking in Cape Town has served the interests of capital and suburban elites. Integral to this restructuring has been the imposition of a new set of disciplinary codes, which serve to restrict the life opportunities of the urban poor and impose new, and uneven, behavioural expectations. For the poor this means living with a ‘basic’ level of services and learning the ‘true’ (i.e. monetary) value of the services they consume. Businesses and suburban ratepayers, meanwhile, have been told that they can demand, and receive, almost any level of goods and services they are willing to pay for, with minimal (if any) cross-subsidization penalties.
