ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on concepts discussed in the proceeding chapters of the book. South Africa's current urbanization strategy disregards the needs of the people: it serves the ends of a repressive regime and suffers, especially, from the fact that it is not a product of the democratic process. The rural development was exciting for me to put together because of the way in which, initially, theory and practice came together to justify a policy of land redistribution that would contribute to both increased output and reduced inequality. In the Transkei, the major urbanization problem, which is accentuated by rural development and the relocation of population, is that the economic base of the towns is barely growing and, as there is no reason to expect any economic expansion, the towns are on the way to becoming agglomerations of desperately poor people.
