ABSTRACT
On 16 July 2009, the morning of the auction, a crowd of 300 protesters from Hangberg gathered outside the site of the sale, the Chapman's Peak Hotel, led by the Hout Bay Civic. Not surprisingly, alarm spread through Hangberg, the major settlement on Sentinel Mountain. Unable and perhaps reluctant to change fundamental patterns of land occupation, the state focuses its transformatory energies, and significant resources, on developmental governance such as housing in poor areas like Imizamo Yethu and Hangberg. Historically the state has played the most central role in housing in Hangberg as in Imizamo Yethu. In the South African context the spatial and lifestyle power often overlays and reinforces, rather than challenges, the spatiality and exclusion of apartheid, such as the racial framing of crime. However, while South Africa has accomplished the largest delivery of housing in human history, it is simply not enough to match the demand of poor migrants into the city.
