ABSTRACT
This chapter argues that the current urban landscape continues to reinforce patterns of exclusion and disarticulation of the poor, away from their sources of livelihood and developed services and amenities. It argues that the government's Reconstruction and Development Programme (RDP) housing programme and the Breaking New Ground houses have not done much to integrate the poor into advanced services in the Central Business District of Johannesburg. The chapter describes the deconstruction and decolonisation of spatiality in post-apartheid South Africa through voluntary housing. Colonialism in South Africa led to the annexation of the land of the indigenous people by the colonialists through violent conquest. Apartheid amplified the physical occupation of South Africa by Europeans by remaking space and spatially controlling social interaction between the colonisers and peoples of the country. Apartheid reinforced the institutionalisation of the racist practices of colonialism through policies and legislation that perpetuated racial and spatial exclusion.
